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 traced the problem to its Boulder, Colorado campus, where a prolonged utility power outage disrupted operations. The outage occurred during high winds that damaged power lines and triggered ...

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 ...

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 ...

In today’s post, we will identify the cause when SpecialPollInterval is used as a polling interval, the Windows Time Service shows incorrect time if the service gets into Spike state – and then ...

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is one of the most accurate and flexible means of sending time over the Internet. It can be used by almost any type of computer. The protocol is designed to compensate ...

In order for a server in your business to sync its time with that of a client computer, it needs to use what is known as Network Time Protocol (NTP). When your NTP server is working correctly, all ...