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U.S. official time slows slightly due to Colorado power outage : NPR

Officials said the error is likely be too minute for the general public to clock it, but it could affect applications such as critical infrastructure, telecommunications and GPS signals.

The U.S. government calculates the country’s official time using more than a dozen atomic clocks at a federal facility northwest of Denver.
But when a destructive windstorm knocked out power to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST… [2092 chars]

Source: NPR | Published: 2025-12-22T00:11:07Z

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