Japan Institute to Use Domestic Commercial Optical Lattice Clock to Set Japan Standard Time

The Yomiuri Shimbun
13:31 JST,
January 27, 2026
An optical lattice clock, which is only off by one second every 10 billion years, will be used to decide Japan Standard Time, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
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