Earth is spinning faster than it has in over 50 years
Scientists believe that each day is shorter than 24 hours owing to the change in the speed of earth’s rotation, which has increased over the last 5 decades.
Scientists Official data revealed that time is passing quicker now than at any point in the last half-century as the Earth’s rotation is faster than normal which makes the length of a day ever-so-slightly shorter than the regulation 24 hours.
The world’s timekeepers are now debating whether to delete a second from time to account for the change, and bring the precise passing of time back into line with the rotation of the Earth. A total of 27 "leap seconds" have been added since the 1970s, in order to keep atomic time in line with solar time.
However, the addition of a so-called "negative leap second" has never been done before. This is because, for decades, the Earth has taken slightly longer than 24 hours to complete a rotation, but since last year it has been taking slightly less.