The Earth started to spin faster back in 2016 — and, on average, the days have become shorter ever since.
Though there arethat they believe changes in ocean tides are likely to blame for the recent rotation change.negative leap seconds
— rather than adding an hour like we do during leap years, they call for the artificial subtraction of time from the world time clock. This potential solution, however, may present an entirely separate set of issues. The tech industry overwhelmingly opposes the introduction of negative leap seconds, as they could wreak havoc on system interfaces.
"Negative leap second handling is supported for a long time and companies like Meta often run simulations of this event," Meta engineers Oleg Obleukhov and Ahmad Byagowi told. "However, it has never been verified on a large scale and will likely lead to unpredictable and devastating outages across the world."
Regardless, if noticeably shorter days like last week's anomaly persist, we'll need a fix — and like most things, we might not
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