Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected by a wind-induced power ...
Due to the power outage, time (very) briefly stood still at the NIST Internet Time Service facility in Boulder.
NIST traced the problem to its Boulder, Colorado campus, where a prolonged utility power outage disrupted operations. The ...
A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United ...
"As the typical uncertainty of time transfer over the public Internet is on the order of one millisecond (1/1000th of a ...
A severe windstorm in Colorado triggered a power failure at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), ...
When a massive windstorm in Colorado last Wednesday indirectly disconnected more than a dozen atomic clocks from their system ...
Officials said the error is likely too minute for the general public to clock it, but it could affect applications such as critical infrastructure, telecommunications and GPS signals.
A staffer at the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tried to disable backup generators powering some of its Network Time Protocol infrastructure, after a power outage around ...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Time Service Facility in Boulder lost power Wednesday afternoon ...
Atomic clocks went out of sync after a severe windstorm knocked out power at a Denver laboratory and a backup generator ...
For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with ...