We marvel at - and fear - its passage. We try to capture it and define it to the nearest nanosecond. "It's a fun thing to worry about," said Noel Poirier, director of the National Watch and Clock ...

WASHINGTON - A yearlong experiment with America's electric grid could mess up traffic lights, security systems and some computers - and make plug-in clocks and appliances like programmable ...

WASHINGTON — Our power supply has been so precise that we’ve set our clocks by it. But time may be running out on that idea. A yearlong experiment with the electric grid may make plug-in clocks and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Running late for work or just miss that bus? You could have a good excuse: Your electric clock might be running a bit cuckoo. Because of a change in federal energy regulations, some ...

WASHINGTON — A year-long experiment with the nation’s electric grid could mess up traffic lights, security systems and computers — and make plug-in clocks and appliances such as programmable ...

Have you noticed your clocks are lagging? It’s not an anomaly in the spacetime continuum, fortunately. The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSOE), the body that ...

For many electric clocks in Europe, time has ever so slightly been falling behind since mid-January. The agency that represents Europe’s synchronous electrical grid recently cleared up the confusion ...

WASHINGTON » A yearlong experiment with the nation’s electric grid could mess up traffic lights, security systems and some computers — and make plug-in clocks and appliances like programmable ...