| ▲ | entrope 2 hours ago | |||||||
Yes, all of those and more. Our measurement precision is much better than the year-to-year first and second derivatives of day length. https://datacenter.iers.org/singlePlot.php?plotname=Bulletin... has the most relevant plot to this; the vertical jumps reflect leap seconds. (IERS has other plots for other dimensions of rotation, but I like this one.) | ||||||||
| ▲ | doctoboggan 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
Very interesting, I wonder what happened in 2020 that causes the rotational speed to start drifting the other way? Pandemic -> more people working from home -> less people in tall office buildings -> faster rotation (like a skater pulling in their arms). Probably not remotely true but it would be funny. | ||||||||
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