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For the simple reason that atomic clocks are highly accurate - usually only gaining or losing one second over thousands of years. High accuracy is vital in GPS systems - otherwise the maps would be out of alignment as you travelled.

As an example - One of the most recent atomic clocks constructed in 2010 is reckoned to only gain or lose less than a second in over a billion years !

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