The oddity of being a christian minority in a Christian majority country

New Zealand has a interesting human (or lack thereof) history. For millions of years no HUMAN set foot on our islands.  Then some 1000 years or so back the first settlers came - our local Maori.

Later - after Cook - originally some English folks settled and of course many followed afterwards. With that came a raft of issues - some easily solved - others still being worked on.  Christianity was embraced and for a while would have been practiced in almost every household. . . . 

As time progressed - well - the story is that when I came first to these lovely shores in 1984- I was told that in 25 years time I would be the last Methodist left standing and it would be my job to make sure to go round and turn off the lights in the church - then lock up and go about my business.  Well - we are not there - yet. It did however highlight that less and less people adhere to being a "Christian"!

The 2018 Census data on that is really interesting!! It can be found via NZ-wikipedia and downloaded as a spreadsheet!

Religion (NZ 2018 Census

    48.6% No religion
    37.3% Christianity
    2.7% Hinduism
    1.3% Islam
    1.1% Buddhism
    2.3% Others
    6.7% No answer

Note - There is about 160 odd "SUB-groups eg Anglican/Catholic/Methodist etc etc.  AND a whole raft of groups/ideology I have never heard of . . . 

Wiccan???  And what do people belonging to the  "Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster" - do worship-wise???? 

At first glance the Christianity still reigns supreme at 37.3 % of the population.

Add the No religion/Atheists and no answer - and you get more then 50%.  Irrespective - clearly only a smitten over a 3rd of the population adheres in some form or other to  being a Christian.

So the following news stories are not overly surprising - right?!

www.resurrected-mast-branded-as-christian-symbolism-by-stealth

 sadly - it would seem that some folks have taken matters into their own hands and - "extinguished" some lights . . . . 

www.vandals-appear-to-have-targeted-illuminated-mast

 

I long held the belief (which seems is a very french thing) of life and let life! Meaning that I hope I am tolerant enough to let other people go about their business - AS LONG as that is reciprocated.  EG - they do not force their particular faith/belief systems (whatever that may be) on myself.  

You want to practice hocus pokus in your home - fine!! Just do not expect me (or force me) to do the same hocus pokus in my own home! 

Today very few countries are totally homogeneous - rather these days they are very much a societies with a variety of religion/ cultures present - or as they say - a melting pot of culture! Our own PM had it half right when pre-pandemic she implored kiwis to be "kind" to each other! In order to live harmoniousness together we need a good dose of tolerance!

Alas - it seems that said tolerance is in very short supply in NZ and dear one says it - in most other places in our world!!  Tolerance requires you of accepting others as they are - while being able to hold on to your own belief systems! 

Tolerance is the stepping stone towards 'consideration' of other peoples life's before you pound your own chest.  

Sadly we have moved on to individualism in such a great way that nowadays the "It is all about me" religion is the biggest faith system practiced on our Globe!  Where will this end I ask you? 

The words of Matthew ring never truer - - 

Matthew 7:3 -->  Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?

Sighs

 

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Cooking with non-sense

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 Yeah - so I had a glass or two - and a Signal conversation with my sister at the same time - while trying to cook SiebenBürgenkraut!!

Multi - tasking at its - urm - best!!! 

It was some fun time!

here is a fun script - worked on and refined and with a lot off - urm  schmauss

lol - one day I write this in English - sort of . . . 

 

8 Bürger sitzen im topf

Beklagt sich einer ueber’s neue Kraut und rutscht raus

7 Bürger sitzen im topf

Beklagt sich einer ueber die scheue Braut und rutsch raus

6 Bürger sitzen im topf

Beklagt sich einer ueber den Reis und rutscht raus

5 Bürger sitzen im topf

Beklagt sich einer ueber die Wurst und rutscht raus

4 Bürger sitzen im topf

Beklagt sich einer ueber den Durscht und rutscht raus

3 Bürger sitzen im topf

Beklagt sich einer ueber the Hitze und rutscht raus

2 Bürger sitzen im topf

Beklagt sich einer ueber die Witze und rutscht raus

Der letze Bürger sitzt im topf und tut schoen schwitzen.

Da rutscht er raus weil allein zu sein ist nicht zum witzen

Draussen drifft er 7 Bürger die tun mass drinken

und sind ganz beschwitzt vom glass klinken...🥂

Ohne fleiss keinen lohn

So schreien sich alle heißer

Siebenbuergenkraut ohne Kaiser

Ja - so kocht mann fuer den Sohn 

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Travelling with Christ - Divine protection or just hocus pokus???

 

Dang - or as our Aussie cousins would say - strewth!

It is an amazing place - New Zealand - or better Godzone!!  Purposely built by the old Dude up there to be his favorite playground - truly a paradise!  

To go from one end of the country - (yes I am excluding the 3rd Isle here) to the other - is just over 2000km.  As long and as far as it takes to swim from Auckland to Sydney - our nearest neighbor!!! Border hopping has a different meaning here!!

Since I moved here many many many years back - we have been blessed with the ability to travel - and travel we did! After all - it is my new home so it needs thorough examination / visiting / exploring! Not contend with exploring New Zealand we also had a few trips off-shore so to speak.  

Totals ---->        37670                                                      Trips in BM 1 & 2   
                                                                                                   19341    km
Euro trip        1987       17179 km         30338    In OE               7637    km
Oma/Liesl       2000        1661  km           7332    In NZ               
Euro trip        2002        5200   km                           
Euro trip        2008        4377   km                           
Doris & Co     2014        2413   km                        total all trips   
Aussie trip     2015        1111   km                           
Margit           2017        3258    km                        64648.3    km
Cook Islands 2018        100      km                           
Euro trip       2019        2371    km                            

Sorry Martina - i did not keep a log of our Trips here although I could 'guesstimate'!!  Also the trips / km's shown here do not include the various (holiday) trips in the various cars we have owned in past years gone by and B4 we owned the Bearmobile's! Certainly there were several trips to Auntie Rachel in Dunedin!! 

:P  Did you see the Cook Islands? ? ?   It has a 'round-trip' distance of 30km!! You could conceivably WALK around the entire Island inside a day!!

Suffice to say - this kiwi is a well traveled chap! Well over 60-thousand Kilometers and counting!!

The early years of our marriage were taken up with SAVINGS - house / children / car / and family trips back to Europe  - so less annual trips away inside New Zealand.  Later on it got easier and also more affordable - so again truly blessed that we can do this! You notice the years gone by - (with 2016 - that interruption with our son getting Leukemia) and of course 2019 started the china virus were EVERYTHING just stopped!! 

I used to own a mini - my first car - and promptly crashed it one night.  No harm done to life and limb - just some pride dented - oh and of-course the car needed a bit of panel beating!  That soon got upgraded to a Citroen!! LOVELY car - such soft suspension! A dream to drive long distance!!  Lots of fond memories owning this particular car!! Because I survived the Crash - I decided someone is indeed looking after me - and in response I 'decorated' the Citroen. I also had a tiny St. George Mini cross on a chain permanently hung in the car.  I had to sell it to get enough $$$ to be able to fly out to New Zealand and begin my voluntary work for the order of St. Steven. . . Imagine that - the price of the Airline tickets was half the cost of a new car!!!  (Lovely numbers to remember - am slightly number-dyslexic - so yeah)

 In between my brother had his crash which he did not survive and so his "spirit " travels with us at all times - he was the lucky sod who always found a car park right outside where he needed it no matter where or when - and ever since his passing - I have no problems myself - a change from earlier days were I struggled!!  Thanks Manfred!

Well - it is a quirk of mine and it took Mamabear a bit getting used to! Since those early days of that crash - I have ALWAYS had a cross in my vehicles!  Sometimes they were just little trinkets - and lately (seeing I am enjoying woodworking) some made from New Zealand Timber!!! 

Here is the little one that I super glued to the First Bear-mobile!!  The new owner has taken a shine to it as well - so I understand it is a permanent feature in the old Van!! 

Then of course - the new van needed one as well - so I  had it made one day (almost before we had bought the Van)  and again - it is fixed pretty good!!  

Which does go begging the question - hmmm WHAT was the question - strewth I lost my threads . . . .

 

NZ Rimu (the dark bit) and some Kauri - oiled and fixed!

Yeah - rambling along here - so urm - yeah that question! urm - does having a cross with you in your vehicle provide you with adequate protection (traveling with Christ so to speak) or is it all just hocus pokus????

Come to think of it - do I need an actual figurine on the cross, in order for it to work???   Seems very quiet (unlike Don Camillo) . . . 

Hmmmmm

What do you think????

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Does the Ol' Dude up there have an image problem????

Howdy

 

 

 

Wasn't that long ago that going to a hair dresser was sort of out of the question (Thanks Covid) and so I had decided to just let my beard grow - eventually it got almost ruler length long - albeit straggly. Yeah long and straggly!!  (Notice the lack of hair further up - that is forever gone now)

Anyhow - I can vividly remember - we went to a restaurant out and the ??Indian/Pakistani??? Dude at front of house - piped up - "I am so jealous of your beard!!  - I'm going - like what????  He had this amazing full grown thick rich black beard - close to the skin - and there was not a millimeter of any exposed skin where-ever the beard was - unlike mine.  So we had a few words.  

Turns out his beard stops growing after 3 weeks!! Now that is the first time I heard of that happening!! So we joked around of doing a beard swap!!! For as much as he wanted mine - I was envious of  his!!

One thing I did usually do - is to trim the few mustache-hairs as they usually grow in a straight line - straight down- and after a certain length they just get into your teeth, making eating a interesting experience!!!!  

THIS time I decided to see if I can grow a decent mustache -   the final "look" yet to be decided - as -- first of all - I need some length - more then the half inch I got now. Of course some serious re-training !! of hair alignment is also needed - cue the hair gel!!!

All of that got me thinking!

We humans are a weird bunch of animal! We and dear I say it - mostly in our modern western world -  seem never to be happy with what we got - or have not got! Our body image revolves around being to tall/short/thick/thin/round/square/wrong color/wrong sex/ and any other blemishes we can dream up. We go and have nips and tucks and additions and reductions and Botox and and and. . . We spend an enormous amount of $$$$ on Hair-colour / Boob-reductions - or in-plants, or in Michael Jackson's case - a complete skin colour change!

Given (according to judean-christian) traditions we are meant to be created in the image of our God - yeah - the ol' dude up in the sky up there - what does this mean???  Is he, up there, not happy with his own image? He who - just IS!?!

Forever and ever. . . . I mean - I can imagine that after a few billions of years of looking at that mole on your shin - one might think about - a possible change?!?!?!?!

Well - I guess I could go to my cross and ask Jesus that - being his son and all he might know - - somehow I think though, I might not get an answer. 

Some things just stay 'in the family' so to speak!!

 

Meanwhile - fingers crossed - those half dozen straggly and yes - (one hair had TRHEE colours) Hairs, will continue to grow and maybe in 12 months time I can post a picture of something closely resembling some sort of mustachio!!  

Wish me luck!!

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When mother nature teases you

Damn - it is cold outside - and for all of that - we  here in Christchurch got nothing to show for!! Mother nature - you cheated me - so much promise and . . . .


https://mewe.com/api/v2/photo/jaOdopOcBcVGkwNaxW6s9GFWhQ-9-Or9L4ty_LLP9YZjPcuzfAU9QJwST4Y/800x800/img?static=0

Not enough to make a snow-MOUSE!!!   Let alone a Snow - woman . . . 

Hmmmm

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For every down - there is an up - somewhere in New Zealand

 

 

 

Oh yeah - the West Coast would be the place to be. In the wind shadow - - yup! 

Poor Wellington - all these bunched air flows - its like getting snap-frozen! 

Watch out NZ - its going to be a fun ride!

https://spring-is-on-pause-cold-air-from-belly-of-the-polar-region-on-the-way

So technically - Globally and long- term climate - we are heading into a mini-ice age! I will not be around to see that happening . . . 

Probably just as well - I like my balmy summer nights - bbq outside - etc . . .



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Snow in October? ? ? ? In Christchurch, New Zealand????

Well, as we said before - It can snow here any time of the year! Spoke to a guide on the Milford Track and he said he had 15 years - out of 20  - White Christmas's on the top of the Pass!!!   -  If you walked it - you know what I am talking about!!!

Anyhow - seems we might get a bit cold and wet these few days coming up!!!

https://nz/weather-news/christchurch-could-get-first-october-snow-in-more-than-50-years-as-cold-front-sweeps-across-nz

And yes - that is MINUS 61C in Antarctica - in SPRING!!!! 

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Who is the real bully here

It is kinda sad really - on so many levels.

In case you missed it - 

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/09/green-mp-slams-heather-du-plessis-allan-after-interview-with-teen-climate-activist-sparks-bullying-allegations.html

I have been reflecting on this for a day or two.

    To Rose Cook I want to say - Who is the real bully here???  I have no problem with people wanting or creating change by leading by example - inspiring to follow.  Put it out there along the lines - look this is how I want to and choose to live - if that inspires you, all well and good - and if not - well its your choice. . . . 

    Instead changes are being forced onto society just because someone has a bee in their bonnet! It works along the lines off: I am afraid MY life is getting worse and it is YOUR fault - and YOU need to change your behavior in order for MY life to become bearable or better and if YOU do not - then YOU are a very bad person!! So Rose -- who made you the king of the sandpit???? In taking this line of approach, you no longer want my respect - rather you want my submission to your particular whims. That is a being a bully on your part!! Again - who made you the king of the sandpit???

 You say: Our young people are genuinely terrified about the world they are inheriting. That is what matters. - 

I say to you that every young generation is/was terrified about the world they enter! Do you remember the Cold War? 9/11? / Covid - or AIDS / not to mention the nuclear threat during the 60-70's  to name a few ??? What matters is not that these issues exist for there will always be something that will scare the youth of the day - rather what matters is HOW we respond to them!

There is this saying - "You catch more flies with honey then with vinegar"

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T h a t freezer door - was left open again

 

 

 

 

hmmmm - I had previously posted about the door to the Freezer room being left open - and - yup; you guessed it - once that happens then it gets cold in good ol' New Zealand.

 

In case you missed it - the ol' dude up there had a ball when he separated Light from Darkness and water from soil and so forth!!  He created Earth and everything that is in it - or better on it!!  

Our little paradise New Zealand - is often called Godzone (or phonetic as I think of 'Gods-own')! If you think about it - it has literally everything you can find elsewhere on the planet. Fjords / Sandy Deserts / Rain forests / Alpine regions / Flat plateaus/ long deep cave systems/ braided rivers to stunning narrow gorges/ Glaciers that retreat and grow (long-term weather depending), a Lake district, Geothermal activity (speak mudpools and geysers Ala Yellowstone Nat. park), stunning white (AND Black) sandy beaches - some so remote you can sit there all day long and be a hermit, natural hot mineral rich clear water springs, and yes - some very large powerful earthquakes etc.  

 

In terms of weather you can have every possible scenario - from month long droughts to monsoon type of rain, from heat-waves to snow - blizzards, crazy Foehn-type winds (with wind speeds from 110 - 300km/hr) vs long days of calm.  At any given day you can go from hot Fan-bake (+30c) to ice cold-snap freeze (5c) in less then an hour!  Houses used to be built on piles for the simple reason that anywhere - anytime, some 100-150 mm of rain falling inside 10 hours can happen.

The above picture is from windy.com and as you can see - the air comes of the big chiller room aiming straight at NZ!! Luckily for those further north - by the time it gets past the central plateau it will have sufficiently warmed up, to the point where we call anyone living north of Auckland - "living in the the winter-less north".  

PS - did you notice the MINUS 63 Celsius in Antarctica????   :P  

 

That cold air-mass can reach Brisbane (warming itself from the Tasman Sea) cooling them down to a "BALMY" 15 C !! It never reaches much further north - and we have friends in Darwin who say it is 30C year round - they just have a dry vs wet season!!! Ooooooh; to live in the Cook Islands where is a balmy 24 during a COLD day!!! :)

Anyhow - If you think you can design a landmass that can outdo NZ - feel free to get creative!  I happen to think that the Ol' Dude up there out-did himself and had a bit of fun with NZ and he just made it -- perfect!! 

Truly God-zone!!!



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Humanity mistakes knowledge with wisdom

 

 

 

Sometimes I think the more we know the dumber we become - or at least make bad choices! There is also a certain amount of arrogance at play here.  

In the beginning when humans run round earth freely - everything was fine until that fateful day when a snake tempted Eve who tempted Adam. The moment we had eaten from the forbidden fruit - yeah THAT apple - from THAT tree - (of knowledge) - things sometimes have gone worse for
wear so to speak.

Being endowed with knowledge does not make you automatically smart.  And to pretend otherwise just makes you a wisecrack and arrogant. 

Communism sees the world as in imperfect place that only they can "fix" with central structure and thought! As is often the case - once bureaucrats make decisions there is a hit and miss on desired outcomes - and so often accompanied by unintended consequences!! 

Case in point - the Chinese (communist) leadership were afraid of uncontrolled population growth - so in their great wisdom they decided to "control" the issue, eventually leading to the 'one child' policy.  On the surface a good idea.  The unintended consequences are as follows: 

An imbalance of girls vs boys with boys being more "valuable" commodity in their society! Thus there is a massive imbalance within the current generation - by a factor of 2 to 1!! What will that lead too????? To visualize this - in a setting that's more easily understood - imagine an end of year party for a high-school class - with 8 girls and 22 Boys attending!! Who will dance with whom???? Who gets to choose?? Who will be left behind or miss out leading to resentment etc????

The other unintended thing is - estimated that by 2030 - yes that is only 8 years from now - (hahaha apart from AOC's claim that the earth/humanity will cease to exist by then - sorry had to toss that in here) China's population will have a great imbalance in ages - meaning that it will have more people aged 60 or older then the rest of the combined  people which - once many of the older folks die away - that by 2050 the population of China will have halved - approximately.  That's still some 600 million mouths to feed . . . 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China

I hear you - less people for the planet is a good thing -yeah - nah.

The world would be wise to start diversifying its manufacturing  business - and spread it all over the world. As far as I know, there is no social service pension at play inside China - meaning - as the saying goes - "No work No rice bowl"!! You either rely on the ever diminishing children / young people to look after you in your old age - or - you starve or work until you die!  What will that do to the society????

The dude in this Video has it right - as had the Tom Clancy Novel - I am convinced that they will at some stage make a land grab from parts of Siberia!!! They will follow Putin's lead and settle some of their folks - then claim it as "their ancestral land"" and defend it with everything they got!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Me2G6FJZMI&ab_channel=ChrisWilliamson

Brace yourself - for I fear that a few non-wise choices are being made!

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Ps - My wife says: - "Knowledge is knowing that Tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is knowing you do not add it to your fruit-salad!!!"    :)

That open freezer door has a lot to answer for . . . . .

yup - a rare occurrence - snow in Christchurch!!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300678783/live-snow-in-the-south-island-flurries-reported-in-wellington

Mamabear just had to release her inner child before heading off to work . . . . 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What happens when you forget to shut the door to the Freezer?!

Well - not really a rhetorical - urm - sensible question! 

The answer is blindingly obvious - you get COLD - right?! 

https://www.weather-news-in-NZ

Snapshot from today's windy.com - you can see the cold freezing air coming from deep inside Antarctica - and yes - it is minus 40 C. 

So - no real surprises there!!!  Time to break out the Gluhwein and light a fire and get the sheepskin rug ready and - hmm yeah maybe some soft music and smelly candles and - Hey Mamabear - wanna . . . . . . ^.-

 

 

 

 

 

 Never let a opportunity go to waste!!!

 

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Why Mainstream news media can no longer report HONESTLY

Ok - our "Stuff.co.nz" site is a def left leaning news media - so far left that it is almost lying down . . . 

It just copies blindly many left leaning news "worthy" stories without giving it so much as an editorial check - - -no wonder then that many people no longer trust them (or any other main news organizations) to report honestly!!  AND most importantly - it has closed  its editorial mind on this issue - no questions are allowed to query the "human induced bad weather events" that make your life so miserable! Skeptics and deniers are banned from its news life cycle! Go figure!! Surely a healthy robust debate on its merits is the rock-bed foundation of a good healthy developing scientific debate!! Alas - no longer

Case in point - this mornings story about a cacti (copied from the Washington Post) :

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news-cactus dies

Sure -- its demise is a sad thing - and especially so seeing it was a semi famous photogenic being!!  This story appeared under the "Climate change" section!

It goes on to suggest that climate change is "probably" not to blame --- THEN uses a "but" and uses a lengthy paragraph trying to prove that very point of changes in climate! 

Well - NEWSFLASH - this type of Cacti has an average lifespan of 150 years; so for it to have lasted just past an estimated 210 years or so - it has done exceptionally well.

A quick wiki search on this type of cacti will tell you the same - - - - It has died of OLD AGE - a natural occurring phenomena!! Nothing to do with Climate.

If only they had edited that story and included a paragraph on its expected life cycle to give some 'Balance" to the story . . . . .

The only good news in this story was of the continuing benefit to the immediate close environment (bugs etc)  it does provide from its post-demise!!

'Comments' section on the Stuff site - not available - wonder why??  Maybe they fear that someone like me might say something that they find  - what - shocking?!?!?!  Upsetting??  Balancing?? Truthful??  Or Factual without the emotions - ah yes - that might be it!!!

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Just because you do not know does not mean it is terrible

Lots to learn - Much to learn you have!!!

Did you notice the 1.59 milli-second shortning????

 

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/scientists-baffled-as-earth-spins-faster

below the full text - just in case

Scientists baffled as Earth spins faster than usual, making days shorter
2 Aug, 2022 06:34 AM
Scientist have discovered the earth is spinning faster than normal.
Scientists have been left baffled after discovering the Earth is spinning faster than normal - making days shorter than usual.
New measurements by the UK's National Physical Laboratory show that the Earth is currently spinning faster than it was half a century ago.
On June 29, the Earth's full rotation took 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours - the shortest day ever recorded.
Scientists have warned that, if the rotation rate continues to speed up, we may need to remove a second from our atomic clocks.
"If Earth's fast rotation continues, it could lead to the introduction of the first-ever negative leap second," astrophysicist Graham Jones reported via TimeandDate.com.
"This would be required to keep civil time - which is based on the super-steady beat of atomic clocks - in step with solar time, which is based on the movement of the Sun across the sky.
"A negative leap second would mean that our clocks skip one second, which could potentially create problems for IT systems."
Researchers at Meta said a leap second would have colossal effects on technology and become a "major source of pain" for hardware infrastructures.
"The impact of a negative leap second has never been tested on a large scale; it could have a devastating effect on the software relying on timers or schedulers," a blog post on the topic, authored by researchers Oleg Obleukhov and Ahmad Byagowi, claimed.
"In any case, every leap second is a major source of pain for people who manage hardware infrastructures."
Scientists Leonid Zotov, Christian Bizouard and Nikolay Sidorenkov claim the irregular rotations are the result of something called the Chandler Wobble, an irregular movement of Earth's geographical poles across the surface of the globe.
"The normal amplitude of the Chandler wobble is about 3m to 4m at Earth's surface," Zotov told TimeandDate, "but from 2017 to 2020 it disappeared".
Some (who are these ?? SOME?? experts) experts believe the melting and refreezing of ice caps on the world's tallest mountains could be contributing to the irregular speed.
"Earth has recorded its shortest day since scientists began using atomic clocks to measure its rotational speed," TimeandDate reported.
Some experts believe the melting and refreezing of ice caps on the world's tallest mountains could be contributing to the irregular speed.
"On June 29, 2022, Earth completed one spin in 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours. This is the latest in a series of speed records for Earth since 2020."
Zotov told TimeandDate that there's a "70 per cent chance" the planet has already reached the minimum length of a day, meaning we will likely never have to use a negative leap second.
However, Zoltov admitted there is no way to know for certain yet with current technology.
The negative second effect and its potential consequences echo back to Y2K theories, where many believed computers would not be able to handle the clocks ticking over into the new millennium.
Although Y2K ultimately proved to be no more than a mere hiccup in our heavily computerized civilization, another programming limitation was detected in 2014.
A vast majority of computer servers use the same system that stores the date and time in a 32-bit integer that counts the number of seconds since January 1st, 1970 — often referred to as the Epoch time.
On March 19, 2038, at precisely 03:14:07 (coordinated universal time) the clocks will reach the largest number representable by a 32 bit integer.
As things are, it is most likely that many computers will not be able to tell the difference between the years 2038 and 1970.
However, by the year 2038, many 32-bit systems will likely have worn out or been replaced.
Infrastructure is likely to be the biggest headache to fix, but planning the change far enough in advance should remove most major problems relating to time and date issues with computers.







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