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 ...

On December 17, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that its NTP server was able to survive a power outage thanks to its backup power system. However, the outage ...

In advance of hurricane force winds moving into Colorado earlier this week, Xcel Energy preemptively shut off power to protect areas of the state from extreme fire danger. But due to the outage, time ...

Round robin DNS protected many users from localized time failures When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NIST confirmed several public ...

What the Clock: Internet time servers are a critical part of the infrastructure used by companies and organizations that rely on atomic clocks to keep accurate time. A US agency responsible for ...