In 2012, two servers run by the U.S. Navy rolled back their clocks 12 years, deciding it was the year 2000. The servers were very important: they’re part of a worldwide network that helps computers ...

With daylight-saving time returning early Sunday morning, don't worry about springing forward your computer clocks. The computer should do that automatically. You should know, however, that it may not ...

At the heart of all computers is a clock, a dedicated timepiece ensuring that all of the parts of the computer are synchronized and can work together to execute the instructions that the computer ...

Is the clock on every computer system in your organization set to the correct time? If your answer is no, you’re not alone. According to a 2007 study by Florian Buchholz and Brett Tjaden, both ...

Reader Dan loves his Asus netbook–but not its clock. Every time he turns the machine off, it seems to lose a couple hours. But the minutes, he notes, remain accurate. There are a number of reasons a ...

Before today, we probably would have said that scratch-built relay computers were the sole domain of only the most wizardly of graybeards. But this impressive build sent in by [Will Dana] shows that ...

Surrounded by computer screens in a modern office, you may check your monitor instead of a wristwatch to verify the current time. However, an incorrectly set system clock can cause more problems than ...

The oversampling regime of an exemplary clock—a pendulum in a weakly lit environment. The two sources of entropy production for this clock are: the friction within the clockwork itself, and the matter ...