[LEAPSECS] Fwd: IERS Message No. 282: Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to retain "leap second"

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <D278BF58.FC5B%kevin.birth at qc.cuny.edu>, Kevin Birth writes:

>Am I reading this correctly that studies will be conducted by the usual 
>suspects in hopes that after all these years of their studying and discussing 
>leap seconds a different result will be produced by 2023?

No, you are not reading it correctly.

"For further study" is an ITU term of art for things they have dropped.

Random example:

	https://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-I.241.6-198811-I!!PDF-E&type=items

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