How do you plan to still get everything done in the new, shorter day?

And will we have leap years more often now?

Don’t these rocket scientists have anything better to do with their time and talent than worry about 1.26 microseconds in a day??? ...and how about the journalists who report this….?

I will have to start multitasking.

@njnyjobs Actually, it makes a great deal of difference to NASA. It impacts orbital flight calculations, global satellite positining systems, and much more.

And who wants to have to reset clocks every few months?

Obviously I will have to buy an alarm clock that can be set in nano-seconds.

@ETpro you gotta be $h!tting me . . . clocks by their nature need adjusting every so often due to power loss or mechanical inaccuracies. Besides, losing 1.26 microseconds (a microsecond is one millionth of a second) a day will take about 793,650 days or 2,173 years to lose 1 precious second.

Damn! That is going to seriously cut into my internet Poker.

@ChazMaz check

I’m not even sure that before the quake that a day was exactly 24 hours 0 seconds

There is a thing called polyphasic sleep where you just sleep for 20 – 30 mintues every 4 hours (adding up to about 2–3 hours a day). I’d love to try it but I work 12 hours shifts so I can’t. Plus, I don’t like eating, and being active for most of the day would mean I’d probably have to eat a lot more.

I doubt this will affect much. Maybe adjust daylight savings time or something? Make Feb 29th an hour longer or something? I’d have to agree with @talljasperman, though.

@njnyjobs Just because you yourself can think of no reason why this matters, does not mean it does not matter. Its actually quite arrogant to assume things work that way.

People who are much smarter than you have a need for such calculations.

The days have never been exactly 24 hours, in the first place. That’s just a good average.

I don’t know how I’ll manage to fit all of my activities into the day. I did a whole lot of stuff in those 1.26 microseconds. They were really important to me.

@Sarcasm I’m afraid I have no time to make you Puppy Chow now. I’m sorry.

@rangerr NOOOOOO! Who knew that 1.26 microseconds would make or break your ability to make puppy chow? Not I. :(

I am pretty sure our days are not a perfect 24 hours anyway. Every 10 year, or 7 years, I don’t remember, the official clocks are adjusted by a second. (the link didn’t open for me, which is most likely my computer and not the website or link, because I am scanning my computer right now, so sorry if what I said was already mentioned in the article).

This is one thing I will not worry about.

It’s not just according to CNN. It’s according to NASA.

I don’t do much on a daily basis anyway, so it won’t matter much to me personally. I’m sure it will matter a great deal to some scientists, engineers, etc.

I don’t think it makes a difference because people are still going to calculate each day through a twenty four hour period.

Dang, now my long hot showers will have to be a whole micro second shorter!

That’s why I was late for work.

@jackm for a 20 year old engineering student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, who likes doing things and stuff. and then Sometimes also do other stuff and things, you sure have a lot of cajones to say what you had to say…. Well, I’m sure those smarty-pants do need that 1.26 microseconds a day in their life to figure things and stuff, and other stuff and things . . . <=3

Oh, BTW great question coming from a smart ass guy . . . NSFW: When did you first start masturbating?

I don’t have to worry about it, the clock on top of my TV runs fast, and gets a minute ahead every few months or so.

@njnyjobs No, atomic clocks and high-accuracy chronographs used for navigation, satellite communications, calculating orbital trajectory, setting alignments for telescopes and the like don’t loose time. There are some colcks outside your own private realm, you know. It does actually make a difference.

@simone54 Ha! See if the boss is buying that one.

@njnyjobs
Hey, look, it’s an ad hominem. How mature of you.

How about we NOT support rudeness? I question what particular set of standards regulating maturity that njnyjobs retort did not meet, since it would be inconvenient to acknowledge that his response was to an unnecessary comment directed specifically at him. The comment to which he responded did not display any attributes that one typically associates with any polite society that I have ever seen. It was a sneaky personal remark that nobody saw coming. A classic cheap shot. And very arrogant. Pot, meet kettle.

@phillis
I agree on second thought that the conversation was degrading to playground level from more sides than one. Maybe it was unfair of me only to call @njnyjobs out on it.
Which still does nothing to take away the fact that the proper way to react to a personal attack is to report the post and move on with your life, not to look for ways to make the other person look more stupid than you.

Then again, I’m not a mod, so nobody has much of a reason to care much about my judgement in particular.

I agree with you on that. There is ample room make better choices. Proper channels were employed before anything was said, but the quip was reported and nothing was done. In those circumstances I probably would have said something, too. Thank you for the open-mindedness.

[mod says] Play nice! Now, back to the topic. :)

I can’t think of any reason precise time could be used