[ntp:questions] Re: Extracted fom comp.risks - What Time Is It?
David Schwartz
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Mon Aug 11 22:55:11 UTC 2003
"Piotr Trojanek" <ptrojane at mion.elka.pw.edu.pl> wrote in message
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> In article <qDyYa.17$GF.676009 at news-text.cableinet.net>, David J Taylor
wrote:
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,985020,00.html
>
> "The Bureau International des Poids et Mesures in Paris sets TAI time
> by monitoring the regular vibrations of caesium atoms in atomic clocks
> around the world."
>
> (I hope it's OK to extract a single item - Piotr)
>
> does anybody know, how this monitoring is done?
>
> --
> Piotr Trojanek
Google for 'cesium beam clock' and/or read articles like this one:
http://www.bartleby.com/65/at/atomiccl.html
DS
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