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…
  • overcast5348@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Tldr- melting ice caps have reduced the angular velocity of the Earth so we need to make some changes to UTC to account for this slow down.

    • voracitude@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      And the world’s developers realised their time zone kludges would need refactoring, and all groaned in unison.