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A power outage in Colorado caused U.S. official time be 4.8 microseconds off
- EgregiousCube 10mo agoBut what was the SLA?
- _wire_ 10mo agoIf they don't know what time it is, how can it be 4.8 us off?
- deadbolt 10mo ago> All of the atomic clocks continued ticking through the power outage last week thanks to their battery backup systems, according to NIST supervisory research physicist Jeff Sherman. What failed was the connection between some of the clocks and NIST's measurement and distribution systems, he said.
- extraduder_ire 10mo agoFor reference, that's 4720 light feet or 1440 light metres.
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- ursAxZA 10mo agoIf the official time drifts by 4.8 microseconds, should I worry about my VHS timer recordings?
- MisterTea 10mo ago> and a backup generator subsequently failed, I wonder what the failure was. I also wonder if they load tested the unit(s) to ensure full operation at some recent point. That's how you find weird things like fuel fouling that obstructs pipes and filters which under no-load testing scenarios would not be an issue but could potentially stall under load.