[time-nuts] UTC and leap seconds
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Jun 11 10:03:27 UTC 2010
In message <815517.110281276250464575.JavaMail.root at wmail51>, "iovane at inwind.it
" writes:
>
>I was wondering, why we assume that Earth's rotation is slowing down, instead
>that clocks are speeding up?
Because we can measure it relative to the position of very distant
quasars.
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