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IERS Message No. 274                                       June 22, 2015
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Information on the updates to the IERS Conventions (2010)


The IERS Conventions Center informs of the following updates:
 
19 June 2015
Chapter 7 "Displacements of reference points" has been updated, see
details in http://tai.bipm.org/iers/convupdt/convupdt_c7.html .

The main changes are:
- Modifications  to account for the next leap second to occur
  June 30, 2015.
- Corrections of errors.
- Introduction of the new version 2015 of the IERS Conventional Mean
  Pole, realized by a provided subroutine.

The USNO web site http://maia.usno.navy.mil/conv2010/convupdt.html
is similarly updated.


Gerard Petit and Brian Luzum
IERS Conventions Center


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