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NIST: Internet time may be wrong after power outage hit servers

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 contemplated pulling the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift

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 ...

Fire-weather alert in Colorado knocked out timekeeping across the internet

The disruption affected radio broadcasts and internet time servers used by nearly every internet-connected device, including ...

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 ...