Universal Time (UT), adopted in 1928 by the International Astronomical Union, is the time standard used in astronomical almanacs, referencing the 0° longitude meridian (Greenwich). For high precision, ...
The difference between Japan Standard Time (JST) and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) has been reduced from typically ±20 ns to less than ±5 ns by the inclusion of the optical lattice clock since ...
- NICT is the first in the world to generate national standard time by reference to an optical clock. - By adding an optical lattice clock to the time system, time is kept within five billionth of a ...