Re: 30 seconds per century? (was Re: Evolution and Creationism)

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 10:06 8/20/99 -0800, you wrote:
> ... This would correspond to 1/3 of a second per
> year.  If days were 1/3 of a second longer today than they were
last year...
> A. John Mallinckrodt

I believe John will wish to reconsider this note.
 It is true that leap seconds have been called several times in the
 last decade, as far as I recall. The Earth's diurnal period is somewhat
 erratic (longer and shorter) compared with the atomic clock standards
available now. The diurnal variability is very much less than seconds
per week which would of course be detected by a wristwatch.


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK