> All of the atomic clocks continued ticking through the power outage last week thanks to their battery backup systems, according to NIST supervisory research physicist Jeff Sherman. What failed was the connection between some of the clocks and NIST's measurement and distribution systems, he said.
If the official time drifts by 4.8 microseconds, should I worry about my VHS timer recordings?
For reference, that's 4720 light feet or 1440 light metres.
But what was the SLA?
If they don't know what time it is, how can it be 4.8 us off?
> All of the atomic clocks continued ticking through the power outage last week thanks to their battery backup systems, according to NIST supervisory research physicist Jeff Sherman. What failed was the connection between some of the clocks and NIST's measurement and distribution systems, he said.