Weren’t you able to complete any work on July 29th YES, but don’t worry it’s not that you were lazy our good old blue home spun a bit faster that day?
The shortest day ever is recorded by Earth. The globe made a complete rotation on June 29, 2022, which was 1.59 milliseconds, or little more than one-thousandth of a second, quicker than its regular 24-hour cycle.
With the 26th of July being 1.50 milliseconds less than 24 hours, it nearly broke the record once more this month.
Recently, the Earth has begun moving faster. 2020 will be the shortest month on record for the globe since the 1960s. On July 19 of that year, 1.47 milliseconds less than a typical 24-hour day, was measured by experts as the shortest day ever.
The Earth continued to spin at a typically higher pace the next year, but it did not set any new records.
However, when seen over far longer time frames, the Earth’s spin is sluggish. The Earth takes a few milliseconds longer to complete one spin per century.
Although the exact reasons are unknown, experts hypothesize that they may be related to activities in the core’s inner or outer layers, seas, tides, or even alterations in the climate.
The Chandler wobble, a little departure in the Earth’s axis of rotation, has been linked by some scientists to the shorter days. According to researchers Leonid Zotov, Christian Bizouard, and Nikolay Sidorenkov who will discuss their findings at the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society next week, this is comparable to the quiver one notices when a spinning top starts to pick up speed or slow down.
The introduction of the negative leap second could be necessary if the Earth’s spin rate keeps rising to keep the Earth’s orbital speed compatible with atomic clock measurements.
The negative leap second, however, can cause problems for IT systems. The jump second “primarily benefits scientists and astronomers,” according to a blog post by Meta, but it is a “risky technique that does more harm than good.”
This is because the clock advances from 23:59:59 to 23:59:60 before restarting at 00:00:00; this time leap can cause programs to crash or damage data because of the timestamps on the data storage.
The time will shift from 23:59:58 to 00:00:00 if there is a negative leap second, which Meta says might have a “devastating effect for the software relying on timers or schedulers.”
A leap second has been added 27 times to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the fundamental time reference used to govern clocks and time throughout the world.
The engineers at Meta wrote: “We are supporting a broader community effort to halt the introduction of leap seconds in the future and stay at the present level of 27, which we feel will be sufficient for the next millennium.
“The bad news is time flies the good news is you happen to be the one driving it,” -Unknown guy from the past.
doesn’t it make a lot of sense now?
Next time make sure to complete all your work a bit faster who knows our blue guy might complete his spin faster too.
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