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Climate change slows Earth's rotation, lengthening days (gizmodo.com)

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[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

TLDR: Water melt accumulates at the equator so there is more mass further away from the centre of rotation

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[–] maxy@piefed.social 1 point 8 months ago

I guess it's only what the article says - relevant for some space manoeuvres or precise measurements, and a curiosity otherwise.

In the long run days are getting longer anyway, as angular momentum keeps being transferred from earth to moon, which is slowly getting farther away. See Wikipedia Day - Variations in length and Moon - System evolution.