An adjustment of a mere second in the official global clock sent dozens of websites crashing in an incident reminiscent of the Y2K bug over a decade ago.
Internet
Jul 2, 2012
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It's high noon for the humble leap second. After ten years of talks, governments are headed for a showdown vote this week on an issue that pits technological precision against nature's whims.
Earth Sciences
Jan 17, 2012
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Meeting in Versailles, France, on Friday, the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) has called time-out on "leap seconds"—the little jumps occasionally added to clocks running on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), ...
General Physics
Nov 21, 2022
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Since November 2021, ESA's satellites and ground stations have been running on a newly defined, incredibly precise "ESOC time." Measured by two atomic clocks in the basement of the ESOC mission control center in Germany, ...
Space Exploration
Feb 1, 2022
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Precision time signals sent through the Global Positioning System (GPS) synchronize cellphone calls, time-stamp financial transactions, and support safe travel by aircraft, ship, train and car.
Telecom
Sep 8, 2016
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The earliest definitions of time and time-interval quantities were based on observed astronomical phenomena, such as apparent solar or lunar time, and as such, time as measured by clocks, and frequency, as measured by devices ...
General Physics
Mar 22, 2016
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The number 2016 divided by 4 equals 504, exactly – with no remainder, which makes the year 2016, like the upcoming years 2020, 2024 and 2028 (and beyond), a leap year. We will get an "extra" day, February 29.
Space Exploration
Feb 26, 2016
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Many people didn't notice, but the last day in June was just a little bit longer than in years past.
Earth Sciences
Jul 1, 2015
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Horologists around the world on Saturday will carry out one of the weirdest operations of their profession: they will hold back time.
Space Exploration
Jun 28, 2012
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are hard at work on research guided by students and researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder.
Space Exploration
Apr 10, 2023
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