However, since 2020, the reverse has been true: the Earth's rotation has been speeding up again. Open the Youtube video. In 2020, the 28 shortest days since 1960 were recorded.

Earth’s Rotation Is Speeding Up This Summer—but Just for 3 Days Our planet is going to spin a little faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, thanks to the moon’s distance from the equator.

Suppose you could speed up Earth’s rotation so that a day was only half as long? What would happen? Well, for starters we’d have to make new clocks that only have hours 1 to 6 for am and pm ...