[meteorite-list] Can you give me a second? (GPS, a kiss & time)

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Doug writes:
>Nowadays, days are a bit more than 86,400.002  seconds, so we 
>are  loosing about two tenths of a second every three years.  
>We'll be around  four tenths of a second in another second if this 
>interval continues.  
 
Oops two corrections:
1) I forgot to put the web site for the "Men in Black"; a good place to  
start is:
_http://www.iers.org/iers/contact/_ (http://www.iers.org/iers/contact/) 
 
2) The above should obviously say 2 seconds, not two tenths, every 3 years,  
and four seconds each three years, not four tenths in another CENTURY from  
now.  Good Night!
Doug