A powerful storm in Boulder, Colorado, caused a power outage that knocked the U.S. official atomic clock out of sync, delaying time by 4.8 microseconds.

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When a massive windstorm in Colorado last Wednesday indirectly disconnected more than a dozen atomic clocks from their system, it threw out the US official time standard. These touchstone atomic ...

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

LOS ANGELES -- A powerful windstorm that swept through the US state of Colorado last week disrupted the power supply to more ...

Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected by a wind-induced power ...

Power shut off across Colorado last week as hurricane-force winds swept across the state. In Boulder, one of those outages caused time to briefly stand still.

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 ...

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.

The Pseudo Random Pursuit Strategy (PRPS) has been proven to be an effective predictive algorithm for atomic clocks. In this paper, the Fast Pseudo Random Pursuit Strategy (FPRPS) is proposed to ...