Rotation on Planet Earth is decreasing slowly. This deceleration happens almost imperceptibly, at around 17 milliseconds every hundred years, although the pace at it happens is not perfectly uniform. It has the benefit of prolonging our days, but it happens so slowly that it may be as much as 140 million years before the duration of a day is extended to 25 hours.
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