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Why We Keep Things We Never Use & The Reason We Keep Track of Time

Something You Should Know

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The International Bureau of Weights and Measures

Any major country has at least one standard lab with a state of the art atona clocks that maintains he local time. All of those organizations report to a group called a b ip m, which stands for the international bureau of weights and measures. They combine all these measure s to sort of form a consensus average. The most they've ever done was in 19 72, when they first implemented the system.

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