"Joe Egginton" wrote in message
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Actually it's not quite correct to
say that the Earth rotates on its axis every 24 hours - it's 23 hours
and 56 minutes, and the 4 minutes makes it up to 24 hours.

Ian Bingham,
Inchmarlo, Aberdeenshire.

The obvious solution is to shorten the definition of a second from it's
9,162,613,770 oscillations per second of caesium 133. So that the
measurement of the earth's rotation in a day exactly equals 24 hours.

Of course, by changing the definition of a second, it'll have major
implications for our high tech electronic world, from mobile phones to
the internet not working.

To say nothing of the fact that after six months, we would be having solar
noon at midnight!

You *are* joking, I hope?