Time is more than what you see on your watch—behind every second lies a complex, global effort to realise and distribute the world reference timescale — Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) with nanosecond precision. Maintaining an accurate and reliable global time scale involves the precise operation of atomic clocks in specialised laboratories and the high-performance dissemination of reference time to systems across the world. This coordination underpins everything from financial transactions and telecommunications to industrial automation, power grids, and other critical infrastructure.

If you want to learn more about how UTC is realised and disseminated, or how you can implement reliable timing synchronization in your own systems using our solutions, explore the full story in the

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