Posted by Robert Newson on 06/24/07 19:17

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

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> Also, leap seconds are added because the earth's rotation is slowing
> down due to the drag from the moon's gravity. But there is nothing to
> say it couldn't speed up. Of course to do that would probably require
> something like a glancing blow from a large asteroid - in which case I
> doubt we would be worrying about a few seconds on a computer clock :-)

Something similar did occur to me - that if a negative leap second had to be
added, the cause of the requirement would be such that the actual clock
adjustment would be the least of anyone's worry...unfortunately, I seem to
have cut that bit from my reply. ^_^

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