[cid89]

They lost me we add a second every 18 months but it takes 3 million years to gain a minute. Doesn't compute. I know they are talking about just due to global warming but it shows that they didn't really think about the numbers.

[ao98]

Even without global warming, Earth has been slowing, mostly because the gravitational pull of the moon has been acting as a brake. Keepers of the master clock at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington generally add a leap second to official time every 12 to 18 months to compensate, said observatory spokesman Geoff Chester.

This is a lie. The leap second is not added because the earth is slowing. It is added because the year is not excactly 365-1/4 days long. The leap second is to compensate.