{"id":235,"date":"2008-04-23T03:40:33","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T08:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/235"},"modified":"2008-04-23T03:40:33","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T08:40:33","slug":"you-twist-and-turn-like-a-twisty-turny-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/235","title":{"rendered":"You Twist and Turn Like a Twisty-Turny Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=bad-weather-makes-day-long\">Bad Weather Makes for a Long Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Changes in mass distribution affect the earth&#8217;s rotation rate.  A little.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., occasionally adds a &#8220;leap second&#8221; to the atomic clocks used to standardize time. The last such update took place on January 1, 2006.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Arrg.  And so do <em>all<\/em> of the timing labs around the world.  The determination of whether or not to add (or possibly subtract) a leap second <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iers.org\/MainDisp.csl?pid=101-173\">is the responsibility<\/a> of the the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Weather Makes for a Long Day Changes in mass distribution affect the earth&#8217;s rotation rate. A little. The National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., occasionally adds a &#8220;leap second&#8221; to the atomic clocks used to standardize &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/235\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}