The 7th biggest earthquake ever recorded in our world’s history is causing havoc on our time. We now have shorter days. Instead of a day lasting 24 hours, now our days are actually 23 hours, 59 minutes and 993.2 milliseconds long. Days have gotten shorter by 6.8 milliseconds. But this may not seem like much since most of us don’t know how many milliseconds are in a second.

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So let’s do the math. It takes 1000 milliseconds to equal one second. That means if days are shorter by 6.8 milliseconds every day, it will take 147 days for us to be ahead by a full second.

We have to take this further in the future to really see something more impressive. In a little over four years, about June of 2014, our world will be a full 10 seconds ahead of time that we normally would have been if the Chile earthquake hadn’t occured.

10 seconds not impressive enough for you? Well then I guess you’re not enough of a science geek. Allow me to blow your mind.

In a little over 24 years, in 2034, we will be a full minute ahead of time. That means on a nice May afternoon when it was really supposed to be 3:02 pm, it will actually be 3:03pm!

So all because of the Chile earthquake, it’s like we’re traveling ahead in time 6.8 milliseconds every day!

Freaky.