UN set to dump GMT for tech-friendly Atomic Time

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UN set to dump GMT for tech-friendly Atomic Time
Alternatively we could keep human and atomic clock times running concurrently: "Knowledge of the precise difference between UTC (human time) and UT1 (atomic time) would continue to be monitored so that any user desiring UT1 would have the information ... read more

Time to change the world's time?
Over a few decades this would amount to a minute's difference, but over several hundred years this would mean the atomic clock time-scale and the time-scale based on the Earth's rotation would be out by an hour. In 2004, the idea of swapping leap ... read more

Symmetricom Expands Quantum™ Family of Atomic Oscillators with Advanced ...
By Symmetricom, Inc. SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 25, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Symmetricom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMM), a worldwide leader in precision time and frequency technologies, today announced that is has developed a high-performance Rubidium atomic clock ... read more

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