A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United ...
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), ...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Time Service Facility in Boulder lost power Wednesday afternoon ...
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A storm knocked US time off by 4.8 microseconds: How a windstorm briefly messed with America’s clock
A windstorm in Colorado caused a power outage at NIST, disrupting US official timekeeping and causing a 4.8-microsecond lag. Although atomic clocks ran on battery, a backup generator failure affected ...
Due to the power outage, time (very) briefly stood still at the NIST Internet Time Service facility in Boulder.
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) has added support for the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) to the SEL-2488 Satellite-Synchronized Network Clock. In just one clock, users can now ...
Time synchronisation is critically important for decentralised systems in industrial automation, such as those found in chemical processing, printing presses, nuclear power plants, or any real-time ...
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