The 'New York Post' reports that scientists have been left confounded after discovering that the Earth is spinning faster than normal.<br />According to the UK's National Physical Laboratory, the Earth is spinning faster than it was half a century ago, causing days to be shorter than usual.<br />On June 29, the Earth took 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours to make its full rotation.<br />It was the shortest day ever recorded.<br />“,” astrophysicist reported via .<br />If Earth’s fast rotation continues, it could lead to the introduction of the first-ever negative leap second, Graham Jones, Astrophysicist, via TimeandDate.com.<br />This would be required to keep civil time — <br />which is based on the super-steady beat <br />of atomic clocks — in step with solar time, <br />which is based on the movement <br />of the sun across the sky, Oleg Obleukhov and Ahmad Byagowi, <br />Blog post, via 'New York Post'.<br />According to researchers at Meta, the introduction of a leap second would have a huge impact on technology and hardware infratructures.<br />The impact of a negative leap second has never been tested on a large scale; it could have a devastating effect on the software relying on timers or schedulers, Oleg Obleukhov and Ahmad Byagowi, <br />Blog post, via 'New York Post'.<br />According to scientists, the irregular rotations are caused by the Chandler Wobble, an irregular movement of Earth's geographical poles.
