[time-nuts] What is NIST "official time" ?
Mike S
mikes at flatsurface.com
Thu Aug 4 14:36:00 UTC 2011
At 10:16 AM 8/4/2011, Christopher Quarksnow wrote...
>Wondering whether anyone can clarify what discipline the Boulder, CO
>NIST
>facility is broadcasting (or showing on time.gov) and qualified as
>"The
>official U.S. time".
>It appears to be about 20 seconds slower than UTC and I could not find
>the
>relation to other known time scales such as TAI, UTC, ET, UT1, GPS or
>possibly grid or broadcast-interconnected reference.
NIST broadcasts UTC, they even say so in the broadcast - "At the
tone...Coordinated Universal Time".
http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwv_format.cfm
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