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International Atomic Time (TAI)



The most accurate timekeeping system in use. It is based on the Systeme International (SI) second, which is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of cesium 133.


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