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International Atomic Time
    

International Atomic Time (TAI) is measured in the SI second, defined in terms of vibrations of a cesium atom. It is therefore not explicitly tied to the Earth's rotation, although that was of course the motivation for the original definition of the second.

Barycentric Dynamical Time, Coordinated Universal Time, Ephemeris Time, Time, Eric Weisstein's World of Physics Universal Time




References

Jones, T. Splitting the Second: The Story of Atomic Time. Bristol, England: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2000.







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