A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United States.

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 ...

A power outage at a key atomic clock facility led to the US official time slowing down by just under five millionths of a ...

Officials said the error is likely be too minute for the general public to clock it, but it could affect applications such as ...

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The IT industry has gotten good at developing computer systems that can easily work at the nanosecond and millisecond scales. Chip makers have developed multiple techniques that have helped drive the ...

A power outage at a key atomic clock facility led to the US official time slowing down by just under five millionths of a second last week, the country’s time watchdog said. A severe windstorm knocked ...