NIST traced the problem to its Boulder, Colorado campus, where a prolonged utility power outage disrupted operations. The ...
Due to the power outage, time (very) briefly stood still at the NIST Internet Time Service facility in Boulder.
A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United ...
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"Time Is Not Broken": US Officials Work To Correct Time, After Discovering It Is 4.8 Microseconds Out
"As the typical uncertainty of time transfer over the public Internet is on the order of one millisecond (1/1000th of a ...
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.
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Brutal 125 mph gusts triggered rare power failure at US atomic clock facility
A severe windstorm in Colorado triggered a power failure at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), ...
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US Official Time Standard Slowed Down Last Week Following Massive Storm
When a massive windstorm in Colorado last Wednesday indirectly disconnected more than a dozen atomic clocks from their system ...
NIST restored the precision of its atomic clocks after a power outage caused by a power outage disrupted operations. Discover ...
Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Time Service Facility in Boulder lost power Wednesday afternoon ...
Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus in Boulder, Colorado. NIST-F4 measures an ...
Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) say they have created the most accurate atomic clock to date — one that can measure time down to the 19th decimal place.
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