The fate of GMT is about to decide

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is about to hold a conference in Switzerland this week to decide how to replace the GMT by measuring new time.

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Representatives of 190 countries will participate in the ITU conference in the Swiss city of Geneva to vote on replacing the current time measurement with new timings , Telegraph reported.

GMT is the sun hour at the British Royal Royal Observatory. By convention, this observatory is located on the meridian 0 or the root meridian. From 1847 to now GMT is an international standard for measuring time. In theory, at noon in GMT, if we look at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich, we will see the sun in the original meridian. But in fact, the globe does not rotate evenly during the process of moving around the sun and tends to slow down due to the gravitational pull of the moon.

On January 1, 1972, an international conference on the standard of decision times changed GMT by Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Many atomic clocks in the world - more accurate than traditional clocks - hold UTC hours. UTC is now more accurate and approximately the same as GMT, but many experts say that GMT time is still more commonly used globally.

The International Bureau of Metrology and Metrology (BIPM) in France has called for GMT and UTC instead of a new time based on the rotation of the globe and atomic clocks. Meanwhile, the US proposed to use International Atomic Time (TAI).

TAI hours are measured by oscillations of electromagnetic waves emitted during the process of atoms or molecules moving from one energy level to another.

"Most developed countries support the proposed use of TAI," China Daily quoted Dong Shaowu, expert of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a member of the delegation, for the upcoming ITU meeting in Geneva. He said that TAI time standards are more accurate than GMT and UTC, which will bring many technical benefits to some industries such as satellite navigation and air traffic control.

Controversy over whether to continue to use or replace GMT and UTC erupted many years ago. Analysts say the upcoming ITU conference may end the existence of GMT by the majority of countries favoring a new timeline.