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1r0ut3 OP t1_iwzahg9 wrote

>The CGPM — which also oversees the international system of units (SI) —
has proposed that no leap second should be added for at least a century,
allowing UT1 and UTC to slide out of sync by about 1 minute. But it
plans to consult with other international organizations and decide by
2026 on what upper limit, if any, to put on how much they be allowed to
diverge.

The CGPM committee should be more proactive and come to an agreement to detonate the Moon that would cease affecting the Earth's rotation, thus solving the problem. It would definitely be easier than fixing all the software impacted by this change. Trust me, I'm a programmer

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jorge1209 t1_ix135hz wrote

Moon isn't actually the cause. It's actually tectonics in the Earth's core. Earthquakes routinely change the Earth's rotation by measurable amounts.

Orbital mechanics and tidal lock are degrees of magnitude less noticable.

So the real solution is to blow up the earth.

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NecroJoe t1_ix1ga0w wrote

>So the real solution is to blow up the earth.

I see no problem with this plan. Where do I sign?

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jorge1209 t1_ix3wt2y wrote

No need to sign-up, you are already enrolled. Just leave the lights on and continue to burn that oil!

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1r0ut3 OP t1_ix1hf79 wrote

Wait, are saying that NASA lied to us? In that case I'm fine with any option as long as we keep blowing stuff up.

>From VLBI, scientists have learned that Earth is not the most reliable
timekeeper. The planet's rotation is slowing down overall because of
tidal forces between Earth and the moon. Roughly every 100 years, the
day gets about 1.4 milliseconds, or 1.4 thousandths of a second, longer.
Granted, that's about 100 or 200 times faster than the blink of an eye.
But if you add up that small discrepancy every day for years and years,
it can make a very big difference indeed.

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/extra-second.html

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jorge1209 t1_ix1oag3 wrote

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/negative-leap-second.html

Total forces set the general trend and in a thousand years or so we would have to deal with the fact that using 1970 definitions of 1 second = do many vibrations of a cesium atom and 1day = 86400 seconds, we would need to add a leap second almost every day.

But over the shorter time frame there is substantially more variability. So much so that there was actually discussion of a negative leap second.

At that point the big tech companies really put their feet down and said "enough with this bullshit" because removing a second is in some ways an even more complex engineering task than adding one.

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ladynox25 t1_ix1bojv wrote

….you do know about the Moon’s effect on the tides, right?

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aneurizman t1_ix1f2q1 wrote

Oh no! You seem to have found a flaw in the otherwise flawless plan of detonating the moon. There go my weekend plans. (puts away spacesuit and dinamite)

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ladynox25 t1_ix1q0ar wrote

Not to mention the effects of a million various sized meteorites suddenly crashing to Earth….

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NecroJoe t1_ix1frtt wrote

>The CGPM committee should be more proactive and come to an agreement to detonate the Moon that would cease affecting the Earth's rotation, thus solving the problem.

Look out moon,

America's gonna getcha.

You're gonna go kaboom,

T'was nice to have met'chya,

'Cuz you don't mess around...with God's America!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTJ3LIA5LmA

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