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		"Nobody Expected This": Earth's Rotation Will Speed Up in July and August (iflscience.com)
		10 points by Bluestein on June 25, 2025 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

gnabgib on June 25, 2025 [–]

We've detected the rotation speeding up since 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUT1#/media/File:Leapsecond.ut...

Related in 2022: We lost 1.59 milliseconds June 29 when the Earth spun a little faster https://www.npr.org/2022/08/07/1116218384/we-lost-1-59-milli...

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