INFORMATION ON UTC – TAI

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NO leap second introduced at the end of June 2023

The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the International Atomic Time TAl is :

from 2017 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -37 sLeap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of Decemberor June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAl. Bulletin C is mailed everysix months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that therewill be no time step at the next possible date.


Christian BIZOUARD

Director

Earth Orientation Center of IERS

Observatoire de Paris, France

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