When the chapel bell strikes 10 o'clock, and Joe Yardling jumps up from Bryce's "Holy Roman Empire" to realize that his new Elgin watch is apparently ten minutes slow, and that he is exactly ten ...

The return to "standard time" is better for our health according to sleep scientists, but the time change can be disruptive, and our bodies must also adjust to more hours of darkness as we head ...

The need for more accurate time synchronization within a distributed system. The challenges of using synchronized time provided by the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) in application software and the ...

You’d think that synchronizing the clocks across a fleet of modern servers is a solved problem, but it’s actually quite a hard challenge to solve, especially if you want to get to nanosecond accuracy.

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) (Weybridge, UK) has introduced a clock IC that enables system designers to use the standard, readily available and free 1-pps (pulse-per-second) signal of GPS (global ...