All the latest science news on coordinated universal time from Phys.org. Find the ... the moon's subtle gravitational pull has posed a vexing challenge—atomic clocks on its surface would tick ...

Last month, a consortium of 69 scientists from across Europe and Japan completed the largest and most coordinated comparison of optical clocks ever undertaken, bringing the world ...

Precision time is ubiquitous today thanks to GPS and WWVB. Even your Macbook or smartphone displays time which is synchronized to the NIST-F1 clock, a cesium fountain atomic clock (aka the ‘A… ...

In the U.S., a new atomic clock called NIST-F4 has already proven to be one of the most precise timekeepers yet. ... Altogether, these clocks decide Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), ...

That agency collates data from atomic clocks around the world to produce Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the international standard of time. According to BIPM data, NIST-F2 is now the world's ...

Missions to the Moon currently communicate with team members on Earth using coordinated universal time (UTC) as a common temporal language. UTC’s timing is tied to an ensemble of atomic clocks.

On December 31, 2016, a "leap second" will be added to the world's clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This corresponds to 6:59:59 pm Eastern Standard ...

That's pretty much the same method used by humans to determine time on Earth (they call it Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC), and if it works here, it will work up there just as well.

UTC is the time standard by which the world’s clocks and time zones are set and does not adjust for daylight savings. It is set by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM External ...

To make the two agree, scientists met in the late 1960s and decided to occasionally add seconds to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the time scale determined by atomic clocks.

Because astronomers have divided the globe into 24 time zones, using one clock time worldwide is impractical. That’s why the times of astronomical events are often given in Universal Time (UT).

Altogether, these clocks decide Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the global system for measuring time. According to a statement from NIST, the new clock is so reliable that if it started to run when ...