International Atomic Time (TAI)
International Atomic Time is the practical realization of Terrestrial Time, produced as a weighted average of hundreds of atomic clocks worldwide. Coordinated Universal Time differs from it by a whole number of leap seconds.
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- Realized by
- Weighted clock ensemble
- Sibling of
- Coordinated Universal TimeUTC
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