For a brief window this month, the official clocks that quietly coordinate the Internet’s heartbeat slipped out of sync. After a power outage hit key servers in Colorado, the National Institute of ...

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

A staffer at the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tried to disable backup generators powering some of its Network Time Protocol infrastructure, after a power outage around ...

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.

"As the typical uncertainty of time transfer over the public Internet is on the order of one millisecond (1/1000th of a ...

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

NIST restored the precision of its atomic clocks after a power outage caused by a power outage disrupted operations. Discover ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Time Service Facility in Boulder lost power Wednesday afternoon ...

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 ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology last week officially launched a new atomic clock that scientists are calling the most accurate time measurement device in the world. Called NIST-F2, ...

The Internet Time Service operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) serves much of the Earth, with customers from around the globe. In one month of study alone, just two of ...

A severe windstorm in Colorado triggered a power failure at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), ...