The draft rules of legal metrology issued promptly to ensure the real time of India

New Delhi: The government notified rules for harmonizing all Indian clocks with indigenous atomic watches on Monday, to provide Indian standard an “precision from millisecond to nanosecond.”

The draft rules of legal metrology (standard Indian time), 2025, notified by the Business Department of Consumer (DOCA), aims to ensure the uniformity and accuracy of the timing – a result, according to a government press release, that it will lead to “O nation, once. ” ‘

Mint It was the first to report on the development proposed on March 27, 2024.

Currently, most India software operating modules are based on US Network Time. This movement will require all the software to be synchronized with local atomic watches, ensuring uniformity – particularly important during the war.

Developed in collaboration with the National Physics Laboratory (NPL) and Indian spatial research organization (ISRO), the project of rules aims to build a regulatory framework One Time.

The new framework will use the advanced infrastructure, including five legal metrology laboratories in India, to align the Ist systems and networks, the statement said.

Legal metrology is the application of legal requirements to measurements and measuring instruments.

Once the exercise is completed, all computers, smartphones, digital watches and digital radios will have Indian time managed by NPL and regional reference standards of the Ministry of Consumer.

Currently, only four other countries – the US, the United Kingdom, Japan and South Korea – have their own atomic watches.

Why is it important to move

Precise timing is essential for navigation, telecommunications, electric networks, banking services and technologies such as artificial intelligence and internet (Iot). Currently, many telecommunications and internet providers depend on foreign time sources such as GPS, which may be a risk to national security and real -time operations.

Rules projects include cyber security measures To prevent interruptions and allow exceptions for scientific, astronomical and navigation purposes, with the approval of the Government. Regular audits and sanctions for violations are also proposed, and it is open for public comments until February 14th.

The conformity will be monitored by periodic audits, with penalties for non -compliance. The rules also emphasize the synchronization process, the implementing lines and the precision standards, ensuring the national level alignment.

“It is expected to adopt these rules to make financial transactions more efficient, to optimize industrial operations and to improve the synchronization of national infrastructure and communication networks. It is anticipated that increased precision in sectors such as 5G technologies, electrical networks and navigation systems will stimulate technological integration and global competitiveness ”, the Government press release states.

In order to address these challenges, a high level committee was formed to create policies and regulations for the adoption of Ist in accordance with the Law of Legal Metrology, 2009. Presided by the Secretary for Consumer Business, includes representatives of NPL, ISRO, IIT KANPUR, NIC. , Certain. -In, Sebi and key government departments such as railways, telecom and financial services.

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The Committee organized meetings to develop rules for the adoption of Ist, establishing the guidelines for the synchronization of the network and the development of the frames for the marking, cyber security and monitoring of the Ist project with advanced technology.