What's New

• Notification: The schedule of outages of the Standard Time and Frequency Transmission Station. (Links to a Japanese page) （2023/12/7）
• Information about the temporary outages of transmission at Hagane-yama LF Standard Time and Frequency Transmission Station due to the renewal of airplane warning lights. (Links to a Japanese page) (2023/10/25)
• Periodic maintenance of facilities in the LF Standard Time and Frequency Transmission Stations will be performed. (Links to a Japanese page) (2023/8/29)
• No leap second will be introduced on January 1, 2024.　(2023/7/10)
  （No leap second was introduced on July 1, 2023.）
• Notification: The schedule of suspension of the Hagane-yama LF Station (JJY:60kHz).（2023/4/18）
  
• Notification: The schedule of suspension of the Ohtakadoya-yama LF Station (JJY:40kHz).（2023/3/28）
  
• Japan standard time distribution service over analog telephone lines (Telephone JJY) ends March 31, 2024. (2023/3/15)
• The schedule of the suspension of transmission due to the repair work of the antenna equipment of the Ohtakadoya-yama LF station (40 kHz)(2023/2/15)
• No leap second will be introduced on July 1, 2023.　(2023/1/10)
  （No leap second was introduced on January 1, 2023.）
• The schedule of transmission suspend of the wave which has been postponed due to the impact of the typhoon 11th fixed.（2022/11/8）
• The schedule of the periodic maintenance of facilities in the LF Standard Time and Frequency Transmission Station has partly been postponed.（2022/10/7）
• Simultaneous suspension of both LF Standard Time and Frequency Transmissions due to Typhoon No. 11（2022/9/12）
• The way to register using the Hikari-telephone JJY has changed.　(2022/9/1)
  
• Holding information of Universal Communication Research Institute Open House 2022 (Kobe)(2022/7/27)
  
• No leap second will be introduced on January 1, 2023.　(2022/7/6)
  （No leap second was introduced on July 1, 2022.）
• Periodic maintenance of facilities in the LF Standard Time and Frequency Transmission Stations will be performed as informed. (Links to the Japanese page) (2022/7/1)
• NICT Open House 2022 has been finished. Some of the on-line contents are still available now. (Until November 30, 2022) (2022/6/29)
• Press Release： World's first use of the "Optical lattice clock" to maintain National standard time.
  〜Synchronization with UTC became possible only with the clock of NICT〜（2022/6/10）
  
• Holding information of NICT Open House 2022（2022/6/10）
  
• At the 20th anniversary of the Haganeyama Transmission Station, we received a large number of reports (140 in Japan and 8 overseas). Thank you for your cooperation.
  
• Time dissemination service using http/https was terminated as of March 31, 2022.Time dissemination service using http/https will end on March 31, 2022.
  Break schedule from May 2021
  The last day the service to be provided shall be March 5, 2022. (2022/1/18)
• Ohtakadoya-yama LF Standard Time and Frequency Transmission Station will have a temporary stop of transmission due to an extra maintenance of the antenna during the time below.
  09:00〜17:00 (JST) Wednesday, January 19, 2022
  
• No leap second will be introduced on July 1, 2022.　(2022/1/6)
  （No leap second was introduced on January 1, 2022.）
  

Past Information