Figure 3. The difference between Japan Standard Time (JST) and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) (IMAGE)

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)

Figure 3. The difference between Japan Standard Time (JST) and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

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The difference between Japan Standard Time (JST) and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) has been reduced from typically ±20 ns to less than ±5 ns by the inclusion of the optical lattice clock since August 2021.

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