Why 2021 Was the Quickest Year Ever on Record

 

If 2021 seemed to go past in a blur, atomic clocks agree—the year was faster than usual.

New Year's Eve is often a time for people to reflect on the past 12 months, and while some may say the year felt as if it flew by, for others perhaps it seemed that time crawled along at a snail's pace.

But according to experts at time zone company TimeAndDate, 2021 really was, objectively, a shorter year than usual. That said, no humans could possibly have noticed.

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