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There is an International Earth Rotation Service. I for one hope that they never slack off someday and let the Earth stop rotating. (Actually, of course, they keep track of the Earth’s rotation, which is important for astronomy and precision navigation and that sort of thing, and they recently renamed themselves to the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, in an effort to have a longer and more cumbersome name slightly less amenable to the joke that I just made.)