Clock Drift - Atomic Clocks

Atomic Clocks

Atomic clocks are very precise and have nearly no clock drift. The rotation of the Earth itself actually is less precise than modern atomic clocks used as time standards. Thus to keep the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in line with the Earth's rotation, a leap second is added to some years.

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