[LEAPSECS] Bulletin C number 60

[Tony Finch]

The LOD is hovering around 0 and the UT1-UTC chart is looking remarkably
flat.

https://datacenter.iers.org/singlePlot.php?plotname=FinalsAllIAU2000A-UT1-UTC-BULA&id=9

https://datacenter.iers.org/singlePlot.php?plotname=FinalsAllIAU2000A-LOD-BULA&id=9

Tony.
-- 
f.anthony.n.finch  <dot at dotat.at>  http://dotat.at/
Fisher, German Bight: Westerly veering northwesterly 4 to 6, decreasing 3
later in south German Bight. Moderate, occasionally rough at first. Mainly
fair. Mainly good.

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Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:04:57 +0200
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Subject: Bulletin C number 60




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                                              Paris, 07 July 2020


                                              Bulletin C 60

                                              To authorities responsible
                                              for the measurement and
                                              distribution of time



                          INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI


 NO leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2020.
 The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the
 International Atomic Time TAI is :

     from 2017 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -37 s

 Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December
 or June,  depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every
 six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there
 will be no time step at the next possible date.


                                            Christian BIZOUARD
                                            Director
                                            Earth Orientation Center of IERS
					    Observatoire de Paris, France