New Technology : See The Exact Time, and 4 More Awesome Time Tools

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What time is it really? It seems like a simple question, but governments around the world spend a lot of money on it. Until recently I lived in Boulder, Colorado, where I would occasionally bike past NIST – the organization responsible for working out the exact time. Atomic clocks, I learned, are way more complicated than you’d think, and important for all sorts of things. You probably know you can synchronize your computer time with NIST, but do you know how accurate your clock is? Let’s look at a site that can help, and then look at a few more...

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