A positive leap second must be introduced on June 30, 2015

A positive leap second must be introduced on June 30, 2015

14 Jan 15

A positive leap second must be introduced on June 30, 2015

The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) informs us that a positive leap second must be introduced on June 30, 2015.

The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:

2015 June 30, 23h 59m 59s
2015 June 30, 23h 59m 60s
2015 July 1, 0h 0m 0s

Please note that for Belgium, the leap second will be introduced on July, 1 2015 at 2 A.M. local time which corresponds to midnight in UTC.

For more information, please contact Pascale Defraigne (p.defraigne@oma.be) or Wim Aerts (w.Aerts@oma.be) or read on our web page.