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The exciting exact time atomic clock

exact time atomic clock > Find exact time, from official local to world time zones


The exact time atomic clock has been achieved as a result of our insatiable quest to achieve precision time. Most people use the term exact time atomic clock when refering to the atomic clock operated by the nist in the U.S.

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Atomic clocks burst into the clock world three decades after quartz technology had revolutionalised the clock industry. The cesium atom's natural frequency was formally recognized as the new international unit of time in 1967:

This led to the creation in 1972 of the International (UTC) Universal Time Co-ordinating Center.

Today the atomic clock systems from over 25 countries World-Wide and the USA, feed continous data to the UTC to create the exact time atomic clock for most countries.

In the U.S. radio signals beamed from the National Institute of Standards (NIST) in Fort Collins, Colorado are received by atomic clocks sold in the USA which empowers us to tell the exact time. These are atomic clock time sets such as atomic alarm clocks, atomic desk clocks, atomic wall clocks and even your computer atomic clock.

These are also called radio controlled clocks because they have a radio inside, which receives a signal that comes from a place where an exact time atomic clock is located.

In the US the radio signal is transmitted by the famous radio station wwvb, operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, based in Fort Collins, Colorado.


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Although, today different Clock manufacturers have produced many types of Atomic Clocks the atomic principles behind them are very similar.

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There are now three main types of atoms for atomic clocks;

  1. cesium atoms using different levels of energy in a field of magnets.
  2. hydrogen atoms using a special walled container to retain the high state of energy.
  3. rubidium gas absorbs light, at optical frequency involving the right surrounding microwave frequency,

The most accurate and precise atomic clocks manufactured today use the cesium atom technology.

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Due to the maintenance free and perfect time precision of the atomic clocks, they are in our books the ultimate clocks or clock to have in this day and age.

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