RE: Y2K [OFFTOPIC]

Joel Jaeggli (joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu)
Wed, 24 Jun 1998 19:47:04 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Garst R. Reese wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, how does MIR correct time for g and v? How many
> beats/sec would a cesium clock register? Who's second?

The in terms of cesium oscillations is defined by the ITU and is used most
places the gps type precision is required.

see: http://www.bldrdoc.gov/timefreq/faq/faq.htm

for all the nist answers to your questions.

"The latest generation of atomic clocks can keep time with an accuracy
equivalent to neither losing or gaining more than 1 second in 6 million
years. Its version of a "pendulum" is a natural oscillation frequency
of a cesium atom. The second is defined as exactly 9,192,631,770 of
these atomic oscillations."

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