A Matter of Degrees, Pt. 2

[Scott Badger]

229.30 `incomprehensibly and perversely, in willful denial of God's
       Disposition of Time and Space, preferring 365 and a Quarter' 
Well        why not?  (AD)


I seem to remember reading somewhere (in a book by Stephen Gould I
think) that the earth's rotation is, and has been, slowing down.  A
"day", now, is longer than in the distant past (therefore, fewer in a
"year"), but shorter than in the future.  Does anyone know if there is
any progressive change in the time that it takes the earth to orbit the
sun (our "year")?

Sorry to muddy the waters.

Scott Badger