{"id":14765,"date":"2003-06-26T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-26T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/26\/what-time-is-it\/"},"modified":"2003-06-26T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-26T20:28:00","slug":"what-time-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/26\/what-time-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What Time Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew that there were different methods for maintaining the standards of time, but until I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,3604,985025,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">this <i>Guardian Unlimited<\/i> article<\/a>, I didn&rsquo;t realize just how many divergent systems there were and by how much they differed.  I also hadn&rsquo;t realized that the Moon is slightly, steadily slowing the Earth&rsquo;s rotation, necessitating the addition of &ldquo;leap seconds&rdquo; at irregular intervals.  Between this phenomenon and the differing time scales, &ldquo;the scales can be as much as 30 seconds apart and the gap between them is growing steadily.&rdquo; This could eventually lead to not only confusion among different systems but also to misreported GPS positions causing an accident, for example.  The <acronym title=\"International Telecommunication Union\">ITU<\/acronym> is working on settling on a universal standard, but they have a lot of different considerations to take into account; the article goes into in a little more detail on some of these.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/linkfilter.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">linkfilter<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-105665932022837189?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew that there were different methods for maintaining the standards of time, but until I read this Guardian Unlimited article, I didn&rsquo;t realize just how many divergent systems there were and by how much they differed. I also hadn&rsquo;t realized that the Moon is slightly, steadily slowing the Earth&rsquo;s rotation, necessitating the addition of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/26\/what-time-is-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Time Is It?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}