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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨FundMECFS@quokk.au⁩ to ⁨memes@sopuli.xyz⁩

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  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Image

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_length_fluctuations

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    • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That graph makes it look like 5 seconds shorter is no problem? How could a millisecond be a record?

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      • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I believe you’re looking at the wrong y axis.

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  • CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not shorter than 5th of July 2024 though, where it was 1.66ms and is still the record holder since measuring.

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  • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m guessing by “history” they mean since we started measuring this accurately? Iirc the earth used to spin faster so going back a few centuries or millennia should give days measurably shorter than what we have now.

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    • runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes, shortest since measuring with an atomic clock, in 1973.

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  • tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    ‘Approximately 1,34 ms’. :D

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