New Delhi, Jan. 27 -- In a push to standardise timekeeping practices nationwide, the Union government is deploying atomic clocks to ensure the time shown on your digital watch, smartphone and laptop is based on Indian Standard Time (IST)-an effort launched more than two decades after the Kargil war. The Ministry of Consumer Affairs has proposed comprehensive norms for standardising timekeeping practices including mandating the Indian Standard Time (IST) as the sole temporal reference for legal, administrative, commercial and official documents. This has been proposed through the Legal Metrology (Indian Standard Time) Rules, 2024. The draft, released by the consumer affairs ministry, is open for public feedback until February 14. Currently...