Or were all the old second counting systems wrong?
Many people have pointed out that if you start a timer on your phone and count out to 45 Mississippis, hippopotamus or number-one thousands it now ties out to a minute.
I have tried it a dozen times myself and after 45 counts I get anywhere between 54 to a minute and 4 seconds.
I specifically remember counting chunks of time as long as 15 minutes and not being off by a minute.
Am I talking more slowly? No, it must be time that’s wrong.
Well it’s the fact that so many others noticed. But I have no way of knowing if they are also old… So that’s my current theory.