The Earth\u2019s friction is no laughing matter, according to NASA officials at a press conference March 31 at the James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The event was broadcast throughout 31 countries, the latest number of viewers reaching just under 40 million viewers\u2014about the same as the number of US citizens who watched President Obama\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n
This year was a leap year, created to keep the Gregorian calendar accurate. Next year, however, NASA detailed will consist of 367 days. \u201cThe Earth\u2019s rotation is slowing,\u201d Dr. Ellena Stophan, Chief Scientist of NASA said. \u201cTidal forces create friction with stray space particles in Earth\u2019s orbit, gradually lagging our spin,\u201d Stophan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is foreseeable, in the not-so-distant future, that our 24 hour day will become 25, Stophan said. Stophan elaborated that the combination of the Moon\u2019s continual drifting from its orbit and the Milankovitch Cycle\u2019s eccentricity in precession has resulted in a necessary departure from our calendar.<\/p>\n
\u201cTime-keeping is centric to the function of our societies in an increasingly connected, global community. To maintain the trust that we keep in time, we will have to make a necessary departure. To be in the right place, you have to be at the right time. Therefore, April first, 2017, will be known as International Time Saving Day,\u201d Stofan said.<\/p>\n
Like daylight saving time, where the clocks are set back or forth an hour to make use of sunlight in society, the additional day, which would usually be April 1, will make up for the .0006 eventual eccentricity of axial tilt, resulting in an overabundance of leap seconds as time continues over the entire lifespan of the solar system.<\/p>\n
The Milankovitch Cycle, relating to the Earth\u2019s obliquity, eccentricity and precession explains that these forces are not constant. Over the years, these changes have happened and could continue to happen, according to NASA.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe understand the difficulty businesses and the people of the world will have to burden with the addition of International Time Saving Day, but by doing so\u2014even just this once\u2014the Gregorian calendar can remain our trusted method of time-keeping for the remainder of all civilization,\u201d Stophan said to crowds.<\/p>\n
Most payroll companies will pay on International Time Saving Day, but if payments are due by contract, the payments will not be late until the end of the following day, April 1.<\/p>\n
International Time Saving Day will be the first one-time government holiday honored in the United States. The calendar will then continue as usual. April Holidays, like National Ferret Day on April 2, National Chocolate Mousse Day on April 3, National Hug a Newsperson Day (The Clarion is located in Building 8, Room 027) and of course the observation of Autism Awareness Month, Arab-American Month, Earth Month and many more will continue as usual.<\/p>\n
What date will be put on the birth certificates of children born on International Time Saving Day has yet to be decided.<\/p>\n
Barton Kleen<\/strong> The Earth\u2019s friction is no laughing matter, according to NASA officials at a press conference March 31 at the James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The event was broadcast throughout 31 countries, the latest number of viewers reaching just under 40 million viewers\u2014about the same as the number of US citizens who watched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1999],"class_list":["post-13356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-barton-kleen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-3tq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13357,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13356\/revisions\/13357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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