Maintaining a timescale constitutes one of the tasks of the 'Reference Systems and Planetary Sciences' Operational Directorate of the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB), to which the Time Laboratory belongs. This function is part of the production and dissemination of the Belgian legal timescale, UTC(ORB), realized at the Time Laboratory.

The specific objective of this function is to support the transition from microwave devices to optical devices.

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