[time-nuts] What time is it anyway?

[AL1]

The task of the BIPM is to ensure world-wide uniformity of measurements and 
their traceability to the International System of Units (SI).

It does this with the authority of the Convention of the Metre, a diplomatic 
treaty between fifty-four nations, and it operates through a series of 
Consultative Committees, whose members are the national metrology 
laboratories of the Member States of the Convention, and through its own 
laboratory work.

The BIPM carries out measurement-related research. It takes part in, and 
organizes, international comparisons of national measurement standards, and 
it carries out calibrations for Member States.




So, the BIPM is "THE reference", because it result from international Meter 
Convention .  Every country  (54), who sign this convention, participate to 
elaborate the UTC by the mean of its own laboratories.
Cordialement
Alain
F4GBC


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