Posted on 03/27/2024 2:10:36 PM PDT by DallasBiff
The leap second has been (will be) depreciated and discontinued.
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Time is up for the leap second. Last week, an international coalition of scientists and government agencies voted to retire the dated timekeeping system, which will officially end in 2035.
The decision was made Nov. 18 during a general conference in France held by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), the organization responsible for global timekeeping.
Similar to leap years, leap seconds are a measure of time that get added periodically to clocks to make up for the difference between astronomical time (Universal Time 1, or UT1), also known as the Earth’s rotation, and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is based on the atomic clock.
https://www.livescience.com/goodbye-leap-second-2035
This certainly leads to a great idea for reducing the federal budget: Cut all funding for the Scripps Institute for Oceanography, and other similar wastes of time and money.
Well done. Interesting and quite telling that here, on our rather tiny but potent forum, there is more accurate scientific analysis presented on the CO2/climate issue than is coming from the vaunted institution of UC San Diego.
Sad that most of our universities have become cesspitts of propaganda.
Well said. Agree 100%.
According to the geological record, we are still in a relative cooling period, barely out of an ice age. There is NO Global Warming to speak of.
So, my cellphone is one minute different from my laptop. And my laptop is also one minute different from the office laptop.
How is this any concern to anyone other than those plotting trajectories or day-traders?
Excuse me, but the premise is bunk that “global warming” is THE CULPRIT that upsets clock time.
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BEFORE “global warming,” the earth rotation varied in speed, plus or minus amounts, around “24 hours in a day.”
AND, the earth rotation will continue to vary in speed, plus or minus amounts, around “24 hours in a day.”
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The highest point on earth, is not Mt. Everest. The highest point is the top of some mountain along the equator - because the earth is fatter there - near the equator.
Not news, that the earth changes shape, has an axis of rotation that wobbles.
Not news, that the moon also does its own - variable thing.
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What may be news to a lot of people, is:
Water beneath the surface of the earth, moves around because of the gravity of the moon. One of the noticeable areas with that feature, is the western part of the Fertile Crescent - aka The Levant - the rough and mountainous terrain of Israel, Syria, southern Turkey.
The caverns and caves and underground aquafers contain water that is affected by the moon’s gravity.
So there are moments in the day, when water comes forth. A major source of some mysticisms, rumors, and stories of ancient times.
U.S. Constitution
Article 1. The Congress shall construct a thermostat to control the temperature of planet earth.
Article 2. Every hour, the Congress shall adjust that thermostat.
Article 3. The Congress shall set the maximum level of the oceans.
Article 4. The Congress shall set the miles per Kilowatt.
Article 5. The Congress shall set the rotational speed of the planet earth.
Our obsession with time is probably one of the things that God laughs at the most.
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