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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/08/2014 4:52 AM, Lester Caine
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<blockquote cite="mid:53E33E4E.7090902@lsces.co.uk" type="cite">It's
only now we have a stable time
source that we see the problem ... and that is perhaps because
someone
got the duration of a second wrong? Add a few more cycles to a
second as
they would have done 100 years ago by resetting the Greenwich
clock :)
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No, it's the length of the earth day that is changing over time as
earth's rotation slows due to natural forces.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-in-the-jurassic-era-an-earth-day-may-have-been-only-23-hours-long/2013/09/23/a75c548a-f2dc-11e2-ae43-b31dc363c3bf_story.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-in-the-jurassic-era-an-earth-day-may-have-been-only-23-hours-long/2013/09/23/a75c548a-f2dc-11e2-ae43-b31dc363c3bf_story.html</a><br>
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