When a massive windstorm in Colorado last Wednesday indirectly disconnected more than a dozen atomic clocks from their system ...

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 ...

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

The lapse resulted in NIST UTC being 4.8 microseconds slower than it should have been, said NIST spokesperson Rebecca Jacobson, who explained that it takes a person about 350,000 microseconds (0.35 ...

The affected atomic clocks, mainly hydrogen masers and cesium beams, are essential for determining UTC(NIST), with 10 to 15 ...