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The motion of the earth was incorrectly presented in EliotMarshall's News & Comment article "A matter of time" (18Dec., p. 1641). If timekeepers did not add leap seconds, thehour of daybreak would slip forward toward noon, not back towardmidnight, as in the text (p. 1641, column 3, last paragraph).