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NIST contemplated pulling the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift
As explained in a mailing list post by Jeffrey Sherman, a NIST supervisory physicist who maintains the institute’s atomic clocks, “The atomic ensemble time scale at our Boulder campus has failed due ...
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"Time is not broken": US officials work to correct time, after discovering it is 4.8 microseconds out
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has assured the country that "time is not broken", after a power outage in Boulder, Colorado, caused official US time to drift by around 4.8 ...
Ask someone on Earth for the time and they can give you an exact answer, thanks to our planet’s intricate timekeeping system, built with atomic clocks, GPS satellites and high-speed telecommunications ...
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