The earth is being cut short: Rolling is accelerating, the shortest day is expected on August 5th

According to a report published by Timedate. com and data from the International Service for the Land Scroll and Reference Systems (IERS), the shortest day of 2025, is expected to be about 1.51 milliseconds shorter than the average August 5th.

These changes are not new. During the dinosaur era, one day there were only 23 hours, while in the Bronz Age it was 0.47 seconds shorter than it is today. Scientists predict that after 200 million years, one day on Earth will last 25 hours.

The factors affecting these changes include the moon's basic forces, seismic activities, volcanoes, and changes in the earth's nucleus. Although the long - term trend is to slow down the planet's rotation, an acceleration has been observed since 2020.

Experts even predict that in 2029 we may for the first time have the need to remove a second from the official time a derelict “second, instead of what is usually added to sync atomic clocks with earth's rotation./Periscopi/