Earth’s Spin Hits New Highs in 2025: Shortest Days and a Potential Historic Time Adjustment
This year, our planet is pulling a surprising trick — it is spinning faster than usual, resulting in some of the shortest days ever recorded. Scientists warn that on particular days in 2025, the Earth will rotate so quickly that days will be up to 1.5 milliseconds shorter than the standard 24-hour period. These subtle shifts might seem insignificant to our daily lives, but they are sending ripples through the world of precise timekeeping. The Earth’s unexpected acceleration in rotation is significant enough that it could prompt the first-ever negative leap second, a rare adjustment to atomic clocks that has