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NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power

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Re: NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power

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NIST campus status: Due to elevated fire risk and a power outage for the Boulder area, the DOC Boulder Labs campus is CLOSED on December 19 for onsite business and no public access is permitted; previously approved accesses are revoked.[1]

WWV still seems to be up, including voice phone access.

NIST Boulder has a recorded phone number for site status, and it says that as of December 20, the site is closed with no access.

NIST's main web site says they put status info on various social media accounts, but there's no announcement about this.

[1] https://www.nist.gov/campus-status

Re: NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power

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Can anybody expand on the implications of this?

Being unfamiliar with it, it's hard to tell if this is a minor blip that happens all the time, or if it's potentially a major issue that could cause cascading errors equal to the hype of Y2K.

Re: NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power

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post #5

Can anybody expand on the implications of this? Being unfamiliar with it, it's hard to tell if this is a minor blip that happens all the time, or if it's potentially a major issue that could cause cascading errors equal to the hype of Y2K.

Time engineers are very paranoid. I expect large problems can't occur due to a single provider misbehaving.

Re: NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power

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post #5

Can anybody expand on the implications of this? Being unfamiliar with it, it's hard to tell if this is a minor blip that happens all the time, or if it's potentially a major issue that could cause cascading errors equal to the hype of Y2K.

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Re: NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power

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post #5

Can anybody expand on the implications of this? Being unfamiliar with it, it's hard to tell if this is a minor blip that happens all the time, or if it's potentially a major issue that could cause cascading errors equal to the hype of Y2K.

Time travel is extremely dangerous right now. I highly recommend deferring time travel plans except for extreme temporal emergencies.
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