{"id":15270,"date":"2025-07-22T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T10:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/15270\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T10:58:08","slug":"earth-spinning-faster-makes-today-one-of-the-shortest-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/15270\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth spinning faster makes today one of the shortest on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) is constantly measuring the length of our days to a high level of accuracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scientists use atomic clocks to monitor Earth&#8217;s rotation with millisecond precision, and have been keeping records since 1972.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since 2020, Earth has repeatedly broken its own speed records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The shortest day ever measured occurred on 5 July 2024, when Earth&#8217;s rotation was completed 1.66 milliseconds faster than usual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the IERS, earlier this month, 9 July, was the shortest day recorded this year, clocking in at 1.36 milliseconds less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whilst, today &#8211; 22 July &#8211; Earth is expected to complete its spin 1.34 milliseconds early, making it a close runner-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) is constantly measuring the length of our days to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-15270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}