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    Did we lose daylight time when the big earthquake hit Japan?

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      Yes. But we also lost nighttime as the rotation of the earth sped up ever so slightly.

      By changing the distribution of mass on the earth, Japan's earthquake sped up the planet's rotation, shortening the day by 1.8 microseconds
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