A severe windstorm in Colorado triggered a power failure at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), causing the nation’s official time to lag by 4.8 microseconds.
For a few chaotic hours last Wednesday, the United States was running late. It wasn’t a collective case of sleeping in, but rather a rare technical hiccup in the nation’s timekeeping infrastructure.
A brutal windstorm in Colorado, packing gusts of up… [3313 chars]
Source: Interesting Engineering | Published: 2025-12-26T10:37:56Z
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