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.
GPS is not affected, but some other navigation systems like GLONASS might be. Here's what article says:
>The Russian system
incorporates leap seconds, while the Global Position System (GPS) and
others already effectively ignore them. The decision means that Russia
might need to install new satellites and ground stations, says Felicitas
Arias, former director of the Time Department at the International
Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) in Sèvres, France.
>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
1r0ut3 OP t1_ix1hf79 wrote
Reply to comment by jorge1209 in The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks by 1r0ut3
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