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user-inactivated  ·  3215 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'Leap second' set to delay midnight

    Because they depend on measurements of the Earth's rotation, which varies unpredictably

I get what he's trying to say, but is unpredictable really the right word? Can we actually not predict the minute fluctuations of the rotation?