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NIST Computer Time Services: Internet Time Service, Automated Computer Time Service and time.gov Web Sites

NIST Computer Time Services: Internet Time Service, Automated Computer Time Service and time.gov Web Sites

U. S. Department of Commerce

Paperback

Technology & Engineering

ISBN10: 1494787318
ISBN13: 9781494787318
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 21 2014
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.17 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides its Internet Time Service (ITS) to the general public. The service distributes Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) kept at NIST and called UTC(NIST), which is an official source of time both in the United States and internationally. The ITS is an important part of the nation's timekeeping infrastructure. Primarily used for the synchronization of computer clocks, the service currently (2001) handles hundreds of millions of timing requests per day. This chapter describes the ITS in detail. It provides a physical and technical description of the service, and explains how NIST provides and maintains the ITS for the American public.

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