THAT WOULD EXPLAIN… EVERYTHING: Earth’s days getting longer, slower.

Over the past 27 centuries, the average day has lengthened at a rate of about +1.8 milliseconds (ms) per century, a British research team concluded in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A.

This was “significantly less”, they said, than the rate of 2.3 ms per century previously estimated — requiring a mere 2.6 million years to add one minute..

Oh. So it is just 2016 then.