Climate change is messing with how we measure time — study

This photograph shows a clock during a session of questions to the government at The National Assembly in Paris on March 27, 2024.PARIS, France — Struggle to wrap your head around daylight savings? Spare a thought for the world's timekeepers, who are trying to work out how climate change is affecting Earth's rotation—and in turn, how we keep track of time.

But sailors, who still relied on the Sun and stars for navigation, and others wanted to retain the connection between Earth's rotation and time. But in recent years a new problem has emerged that few saw coming: Earth's rotation has been speeding up, overtaking atomic time. He determined that if not for climate change, a negative leap second might have needed to be added to UTC as soon as 2026.

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Climate change is messing with how we measure time —studyIn a strange twist, global warming could help timekeepers by delaying the need for history's first 'negative leap second'—a minute with only 59 seconds—by three years, a study suggested.
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