Note that Mathew is not on the time zone mailing list (and note the space in the return address?); be sure to direct any replies to this message appropriately. --ado ---------- From: Mathew Englander[SMTP:"mathew "@ican.net] Sent: Friday, March 27, 1998 3:51 AM To: tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: lengthening days On my local TV news tonight, they said that NASA thinks El Niño has slowed dow the Earth's rotation, making days 1/10 of a second longer. Surely this can't be right -- if it is, why don't we have three leap seconds a month? At CNN Interactive there is a news story (http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9803/26/nasa.el.nino/index.html) quoting the time of rotatin as being "a fraction of a second" longer. But in a transcript of a CNN program (http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/9803/26/ee.07.html) where a NASA oceanographer is interviewed, the interviewer for some reason puts the fraction at 2/3 of a second. What gives? Mathew Englander