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How Wind Nearly Took Down Boulder NTP (hackaday.com)
submitted 4 months ago by ptz@dubvee.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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NTP is one of the most interesting and important, but all too forgotten, protocols that makes the internet tick. Accurate clock synchronization is required for everything ranging from cryptography to business and science. NTP is closely tied around a handful of atomic clocks, some in orbit on GPS satellites, and some in laboratories. So the near-failure of one such atomic clock sparked a rather large, and nerdy, internet debate.

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[-] nasalpitch17@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

However, the wind storm brought with it a particularly dangerous red flag warning outside of Boulder, a first for Colorado.

Patently false. These warnings happen all the time in this area.

And this sentence just doesn't make sense to me:

Due to predicted failure of NIST’s heat exchange, much of the normal monitoring equipment was unavailable to the scientists, further complicating the situation.

Wouldn't the power loss by itself result in this?

Idk, maybe I'm just being crotchety.

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