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Before the atomic clock was invented, the primary time source to which all other times were synchronized was the observation of the sun at its highest point in the sky each day as viewed from the Greenwich Observatory in England. That was the origin of Greenwich Mean Time. Although atomic clocks have taken over the task, the name has stuck.

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