[LEAPSECS] Bulletin C number 43 (fwd)

[Zefram]

Markus Kuhn wrote:

> A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2012.


Slight surprise there.  It's the obviously-correct scheduling to minimise

|UT1-UTC|, but IERS has been favouring December in recent years,

and there was plenty of slack to postpone this leap until December.
(Actually |UT1-UTC| could be kept smaller still by scheduling the leap
for March, but that would require a procedural change.)

-zefram