Slashdot Items Tagged "timekeeping"

Date / Time Story
Monday March 14, 2016 @02:50PM Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To "Atomic" Clocks?
Monday February 22, 2016 @09:40AM HTTP GZIP Compression Leaks Data On the Location of Tor Web Servers
Friday February 12, 2016 @12:46PM Did a Timer Error Change the Outcome of a Division I College Basketball Game?
Thursday January 28, 2016 @05:34PM Satellite Failure Behind GPS Timing Anomaly
Tuesday January 26, 2016 @01:35PM Discrepancy Detected In GPS Time
Saturday January 09, 2016 @10:02AM Epoch Time Bug Causes Facebook To Congratulate Users On 46 Years of Friendship
Tuesday November 24, 2015 @09:46AM Understanding the Antikythera Mechanism
Friday November 20, 2015 @11:44PM You Can Look Forward To 8 More Years of Leap Second Problems
Friday October 30, 2015 @06:27PM Leap Second May Be On the Chopping Block
Thursday October 22, 2015 @10:39AM Researchers Warn Computer Clocks Can Be Easily Scrambled Via NTP Flaws
Tuesday August 18, 2015 @08:27AM "Father Time" Gets Another Year At NTP From Linux Foundation
Wednesday July 22, 2015 @09:45AM Fossil Fuels Are Messing With Carbon Dating
Friday March 20, 2015 @07:07PM Internet of Things Endangered By Inaccurate Network Time, Says NIST
Friday March 06, 2015 @07:59PM Daylight Saving Time Change On Sunday For N. America
Friday January 09, 2015 @09:35AM OpenBSD Releases a Portable Version of OpenNTPD
Friday November 28, 2014 @08:51PM New Analysis Pushes Back Possible Origin For Antikythera Mechanism
Saturday November 01, 2014 @07:19PM Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time?
Thursday October 30, 2014 @01:33PM How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking
Thursday July 03, 2014 @10:17AM Russia Moves From Summer Time To Standard Time
Friday May 30, 2014 @07:27PM Terran Computational Calendar Introduces Minimonths, Year Bases, and Datemods
Tuesday April 29, 2014 @08:12AM Japanese and Swiss Watchmakers Scoff At Smartwatches
Tuesday April 01, 2014 @01:37AM Daylight Saving Time Linked To Heart Attacks
Thursday March 27, 2014 @03:02PM Introducing a Calendar System For the Information Age
Friday November 01, 2013 @09:47PM A Plan To Fix Daylight Savings Time By Creating Two National Time Zones
Tuesday October 22, 2013 @08:28AM Biological Clock Discovered That Measures Ages of Most Human Tissues
Friday August 23, 2013 @08:56PM NIST Ytterbium Atomic Clocks Set Record For Stability
Tuesday July 16, 2013 @08:15AM Oldest Lunar Calendar Found In Scotland
Thursday July 11, 2013 @08:08AM New Atomic Clock Could Redefine the Second
Thursday July 04, 2013 @01:01AM WWVB Celebrates 50 Years of Broadcasting Time
Tuesday June 11, 2013 @11:49AM Oracle Reinstates Free Time Zone Updates For Java 7
Saturday June 08, 2013 @01:01AM Oracle Discontinues Free Java Time Zone Updates
Tuesday March 12, 2013 @08:28AM Ask Slashdot: How Many Time Standards Are There?
Friday March 08, 2013 @09:36PM Is Daylight Saving Time Worth Saving?
Tuesday January 22, 2013 @10:47AM You've Got 25 Years Until UNIX Time Overflows
Friday October 19, 2012 @06:36PM Carbon Dating Gets an Update
Friday September 07, 2012 @07:35AM Florida Researchers Create Shortest Light Pulse Ever Recorded
Friday June 22, 2012 @05:19AM The NTP Pool Needs More Servers — Yours, If Available
Wednesday May 23, 2012 @11:58AM Know What Time It Is? Your Medical Device Doesn't
Tuesday March 13, 2012 @02:12PM Single-Ion Clock 100 Times More Accurate Than Atomic Clock
Thursday February 23, 2012 @09:20AM EFF Wins Protection For Time Zone Database
Thursday January 05, 2012 @10:53AM Leap Second Coming In June, 2012
Friday December 30, 2011 @07:16PM Samoa and Tokelau Are Skipping December 30th
Thursday November 17, 2011 @12:56PM Recreating a Mysterious, 2,100-Year-Old Clock
Monday November 07, 2011 @01:14AM FEMA, FCC Hope To Forestall Panic Over National Emergency Alert
Tuesday November 01, 2011 @08:28AM Multi-Target Photo-Radar System To Make Speeding Riskier
Friday October 28, 2011 @06:59PM Ask Slashdot: Image Recognition For Race Timing?
Friday October 21, 2011 @06:08AM NASA To Test New Atomic Clock
Tuesday September 06, 2011 @10:59AM Kevin Kelly Answers Your Questions
Saturday August 27, 2011 @02:19PM Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones?
Thursday July 07, 2011 @05:01PM Digital Generation Rediscovers Analog Wristwatches
Saturday June 25, 2011 @11:28AM Long Now Clock Advances With Bezos Cash
Thursday May 12, 2011 @01:50PM Government Funded Atomic Clock On a Chip
Tuesday March 29, 2011 @11:50PM Nuclear Crisis Stopped Time In Japan
Saturday March 12, 2011 @02:27PM Is Daylight Saving Time Bad For You?
Tuesday October 19, 2010 @01:29PM 2012 Mayan Calendar 'Doomsday' Date Might Be Wrong
Thursday July 08, 2010 @01:02PM Free Clock Democratizes Atomic Accuracy
Wednesday April 07, 2010 @03:44PM Man-Made Atomic Clocks the Best In the Universe
Sunday March 14, 2010 @07:19AM Pi Day and an Interview With a Pi Researcher