Re: Gentlemen [and ladies] restart your UTC clocks!

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:25:13 -0800, "A.Pismo Clam"
<Alaininvc@'86DASPAMnetscape.net> wrote:

>U.S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20392-5420 July 27, 2005 No. 69
>TIME SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT SERIES 14 UTC TIME STEP
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>1. The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS)
>has announced the introduction of a time step to occur at the end of
>December, 2005.
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>2. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) will be retarded by 1.0s so that the
>sequence of dates of the UTC markers will be:
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>2005 December 31 23h 59m 59s
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>2005 December 31 23h 59m 60s
>
>2006 January 01 0h 0m 0s
>
Get this on tape. Tell the Grand Kids.

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