Computer clocks seem to reflect this conflict to some degree. It is a well known fact that no two computer clocks keep time in exactly the same way, or even in strictly regular meter. My brother in law oversees computers in a really big company, and he assures me this is so. My own computers have a nasty habit of arbitrarily slipping in an extra hour or disappearing bunches of minutes, and even occasionally palming a whole day. The clocks they put in cars have never been willing to cooperate with a predictable flow rate.
Digital technology seems particularly sensitive to the true erratic nature of the temporal fluid.
We can't appeal to the Scientists for help on this one. They are off somewhere else entirely, concentrating their concerns on fixed-time based worries like Global Warming and proton decay. They totally ignore immediate problems, like the fact that years are getting shorter. We all know this is so, and that the trend is accelerating. Maybe this is what the Millennium is about.