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[-] maxy@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

I guess it's only what the article says - relevant for some space manoeuvres or precise measurements, and a curiosity otherwise.

In the long run days are getting longer anyway, as angular momentum keeps being transferred from earth to moon, which is slowly getting farther away. See Wikipedia Day - Variations in length and Moon - System evolution.

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