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Days are getting longer. Scientists don't know why

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Re: Days are getting longer. Scientists don't know why

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Last I heard, days were getting unaccountably shorter, such that they were threatening to impose a reverse-leap second, or "lop second", with a select minute only 59 seconds long, rather than 61 for the usual case.

Covered in the article. They got shorter and now they are getting longer.