• skuzz
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    3 days ago

    I hadn’t even considered the massive power outages could shut down power to the time servers. (Giant wind storms on Weds and Fri, NCAR’s facility clocked wind up to 112MPH on Friday, in fact. The corporate power company Xcel Energy (that has mis-managed its grid by basically committing deferred maintenance fraud for years in much of CO) shut down most of Boulder and some of the Denver Metro area to prevent Xcel starting another Marshall fire, and they now have to manually inspect hundreds of miles of wires before they turn them back on so some places may not have power for days.)

    Looks like the Boulder servers are up but only off by 4.8 microseconds. Probably on backup generators if power hasn’t yet been restored. (https://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi)

    Oh, and I did chuckle at the joke.