09/07/2025
Iligan did you know?
Earth was predicted to spin faster today (July 9), making this one of the shortest days ever recorded.
This is happening because of where the moon is positioned today. When it's farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, our planet spins faster.
We're talking about 1.3 to 1.51 milliseconds shorter than usual - tiny amounts that only atomic clocks can detect, but your phone will still show 24 hours.
Our days have been getting longer for billions of years. About 1-2 billion years ago, a day was only 19 hours long because the moon was closer to us.
But lately, Earth's been breaking records. We had the shortest day ever recorded on July 5, 2024 - 1.66 milliseconds short of 24 hours.
Climate change is actually affecting this too. Moving ice and groundwater has been adding 1.33 milliseconds to our days per century. Even earthquakes can change how fast we spin - the 2011 Japan earthquake shortened the day by 1.8 microseconds.
This will happen again on July 22 and August 5. Nature's been fine-tuning time long before we invented watches.
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