On December 31, 2005 a “leap second” will be added to the world’s clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This corresponds to 6:59:59 pm Eastern Standard Time, ...
A couple of readers have written us to ask why the Master Clock at 34th Street and Massachusetts Ave NW, at the entrance of the U.S. Naval Observatory, hasn’t been working for the last few months. We ...
As we get ready to 'spring forward' in Atlanta, time is at the top of mind. Precise Time is kept in the U.S. by the Navy, at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. The history of that dates ...