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Re:NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut by kibwen on Monday December 22, 2025 @03:59PM (#46359014)
Yes, the US government is banning all those democrat windmills that conspired to blow over the NTP server.
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Re:NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut by groundzeros2015 on Monday December 22, 2025 @06:22PM (#46360458)
??? The power outage was voluntary and surrounding towns chose not to turn off power. They could absolutely make infrastructure changes, and I’m sure the backups for power could make changes too.
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Re:NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut by Muromec on Monday December 22, 2025 @06:40PM (#46360606)
It would greatly decrease electricity prices too. God knows how expensive it is to power those gigantic spinning things
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Re:NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut by ykonstant on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @03:29AM (#46363519)
I laughed audibly at that!
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