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Climate change is messing with how we measure time: study (www.france24.com)
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Paper : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07170-0

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[-] overcast5348@lemmy.world 3 points 8 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.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

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