The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has assured the country that "time is not broken", after a power outage in Boulder, Colorado, caused official US time to drift by around 4.8 ...

GPS accuracy relies on Einstein's relativity theories to correct satellite timing errors that would otherwise cause 6+ mile ...

Forget Greenwich Mean Time or Eastern Daylight Time, scientists say we need a brand new time zone – for Mars. That's because clocks on the Red Planet will tick 477 microseconds faster than those on ...

A power outage at a key atomic clock facility led to the US official time slowing down by just under five millionths of a second last week, the country’s time watchdog said. A severe windstorm knocked ...

The IT industry has gotten good at developing computer systems that can easily work at the nanosecond and millisecond scales. Chip makers have developed multiple techniques that have helped drive the ...