Earth is spinning faster than usual and we might have to fix time as a result. Someone call the Avengers, because we’ve got a full-on time crisis afoot. A new report from The Telegraph explains how there’s going to be some serious recalibration necessary if we want to get atomic clocks back on track. The story goes that July 19th of 2020 was the shortest day on Earth since records began. A usual day has 86,400 seconds in a complete rotation. That July day was 1.4602 milliseconds less. So, the days are getting shorter. 2005 was the previous short day champion, but that mark was bested 28 times last year. Telegraph’s report indicates that the average day is passing .5 milliseconds faster than usual. Estimates indicate that we could need as much as a negative leap second to get atomic clocks back on the right track with the world as it currently turns. (Does your head hurt? Don’t even worry about it.)
