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Draft Rules Notified for One Nation, One Time
Mint Hyderabad
|January 28, 2025
The government on Monday notified rules to harmonize all Indian clocks with indigenous atomic clocks to lend the Indian Standard Time (IST) a "millisecond to nanosecond accuracy".
The draft Legal Metrology (Indian Standard Time) Rules, 2025, notified by the Department of Consumer Affairs (DoCA), seeks to ensure uniformity and precision in time-keeping—an outcome a government press release said will lead to ‘One Nation, One Time.’
This story is from the January 28, 2025 edition of Mint Hyderabad.
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