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[dreadgeek]

Originally Posted by WILDCAT

Will this affect all things very well predicted like exact times of New and Full Moons, and the calendar year(s), ultimately? Clock times everywhere?? How will this impact us AJ in those ways do you believe? It's like another whole time existence/reality on our hands, sort of - just like that!? Because it will eventually all add up and/or catch up, yes? Things will have to be changed now, right? (Timings?) And what about changes with anything else, like seasonal and climate? (Over a course of time here I'm talking.)

Thanks,
WILDCAT

Actually there's two different 'times' that we're talking about here. The shift in the spin of the Earth does nothing to affect the flow of Time (what we measure with clocks). So a second is still a second by the formal definition (which has to do with cycles of radioactive decay of a cesium-133 atom). However, the 24.25 hour day just got shorter by a millionth of a second.

It won't affect climate or seasons since it did not change the Earth's orientation on its plane of orbit around the Sun. (The reason we have seasons is that Earth does not orbit the Sun at a 90-degree angle relative to its plane of orbit. Instead we're tilted about 23-degrees toward the sun with a slight wobble so that sometimes it's closer to 22 and sometimes closer to 24 degrees).

The only real-world application I can think would be *at all* affected by this are GPS systems since they take into account the rotation of the Earth. But even that won't matter for the GPS you and I use in our cars since they move so slow relative to what can be done in a millionth of a second.

Cheers
Aj