{"id":57591,"date":"2024-04-25T15:26:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T13:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=57591"},"modified":"2024-04-25T15:26:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T13:26:11","slug":"now-weve-truly-disconnected-from-heavenly-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/now-weve-truly-disconnected-from-heavenly-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Now, We\u2019ve Truly Disconnected from Heavenly Time"},"content":{"rendered":"In November 2022, the delegates at the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) decided to dispense with leap seconds in the near future. This is probably the last act of detaching our time from the path of the sun and the stars.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFirst of all, why do we have leap years? Where they exist in both East and West, leap years are human being\u2019s attempt to reconcile our cosmic cultural events\u2014our annual festivals\u2014with the rhythm of day and night. These two rhythms are incommensurab<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2022, the delegates at the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) decided to dispense with leap seconds in the near future. This is probably the last act of detaching our time from the path of the sun and the stars. First of all, why do we have leap years? Where they exist in both East and West, leap years are human being\u2019s attempt to reconcile our cosmic cultural events\u2014our annual festivals\u2014with the rhythm of day and night. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9194,"featured_media":54126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8844,8790],"tags":[11495,11431,8824],"class_list":["post-57591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-math-astronomy","category-society-en","tag-english-issue-17-2024","tag-2024-10-en","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}