INTERNATIONAL   EARTH   ROTATION   SERVICE   (IERS) 
SERVICE INTERNATIONAL LA ROTATION TERRESTRE


BUREAU CENTRAL DE L'IERS
OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS
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75014 PARIS (France)
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Internet: iers@obspm.fr Paris, 3 July 1998

Bulletin D 76





ANNOUNCEMENT OF DUT1


From the

13 August 1998, 0h UTC

until further notice, the value of DUT1 to be disseminated with the time signals
will be


DUT1 = - 0.2 s


Bulletin D 77 should be issued in August 1998.