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For a few hours, time itself was broken in America, here's the bizarre reason why

A powerful storm in Boulder, Colorado, caused a power outage that knocked the U.S. official atomic clock out of sync, ...

Atomic clocks missed a beat as NIST warns of inaccurate timestamps

NIST traced the problem to its Boulder, Colorado campus, where a prolonged utility power outage disrupted operations. The ...

NIST warns that its NIST-F4 atomic clock lost track of time after a power outage

The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently warned that an atomic clock device installed at its Boulder campus had failed due to a prolonged power ...
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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 ...
Hackaday

2025 One Hertz Challenge: Atomic Decay Clock Is Accurate But Not Precise

At this point, atomic clocks are old news. They’ve been quietly keeping our world on schedule for decades now, and have been through several iterations with each generation gaining more accuracy. They ...

US official time slowed down by a few microseconds last week due to power outage, watchdog says

Atomic clocks went out of sync after a severe windstorm knocked out power at a Denver laboratory and a backup generator ...
Nature

Nuclear clocks could use electrical signals to keep time

The emission of photons by excited nuclei has been explored for timekeeping and sensing, but nuclear processes that eject electrons offer practical advantages. Electrons in atoms can exist only in ...