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  1. NIST Time Drift After Boulder Outage Highlights Microsecond Risks

    Last week’s windstorm and a cascading backup-power failure at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder briefly nudged the United States’ official time off by about 4.8 microseconds, a tiny interval measured in millionths of a second but one that exposes real...
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  2. Chile's Aysén Region Adopts Permanent Daylight Saving Time: Impact on Windows Users

    The recent announcement from the Chilean government is sending ripples through the world of timekeeping—and Windows is no exception. As of March 20, 2025, the Aysén Region in Chile will remain permanently in Daylight Saving Time (UTC-3). This change means that when April 6, 2025 arrives at...
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  3. ART Time Marches On

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  4. VIDEO Scientists Are in a Race Against Time and Earth’s Rotation

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  5. VIDEO Who Came Up With Days, Hours, Minutes and Seconds?

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  6. When SpecialPollInterval is used as a polling interval, the Windows Time service does not correct th

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    Windows 7 Win 7 Machines not syncing with domain

    We have server 2003 - 32 bit, and have added some Win 7/64 bit machines to the domain. For a while, everything was great. Recently though, the Win 7 machines do not keep the same time as the domain, they all go 10-15 minutes fast. When we run the w32 commands, it shows that it is getting the...
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    • 64-bit administration configuration domain sync firewall network issues server 2003 time synchronization timekeeping troubleshooting w32 commands windows 7 windows pro
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    • Forum: Windows Networking
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 time gets seriously behind

    I have a PC (Window 7 Ultimate x64 SP1) with a time keeping problem. When Win7 is running the internal time gets behind 5 seconds every 10 minutes. This is a serious lag. The problem is pretty consistent. The system synchronizes its time every 10 minutes (because it is so inaccurate) with...
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    • atomic time bug hardware performance services sync tick issue timekeeping windows 7
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 + MSports PRO

    I use my Laptop for dragrace timekeeping and for that i use software called MSports PRO. The program instals and works great until I try to press timing button. I don't know what the problem is but I really whant to get it work because I like Windows 7 a lot. MSports is originaly compatable with...
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    • Forum: Windows Software