So, whoah. Time is going a little faster than normal.
For some reason, the Earth's spin has sped up, to the point where we might have to take a negative leap second to sync solar time back up with atomic time.
Why is this happening? Up until last year, the Earth was slowing down. In fact, some variation in spin rate (and we're talking milliseconds here) is normal, depending on things like, oh, the amount of snow, the amount of volcanism.
It's possible it's caused by global warming. Or not. Either way, we aren't about to all go spinning off, but it's causing some arguments about, well. Time. And how we keep everything synced.
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