He runs the Time Service Department at the US Naval Observatory, which keeps official time for the country. Without his department’s ultra-precise clocks, the Global Positioning System ...

COVINGTON: U.S. Naval Observatory Master Clock. At the tone, Eastern daylight time - 11 hours, 13 minutes exactly. CHESTER: So anyway, this is Fred Covington, and he passed away on July 28 of 1993.

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA and LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwired - Sep 22, 2015) - TimeLoc is shown to be a hyper-accurate network synchronization technology which is 6 orders of magnitude more precise (i.e ...

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).

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 ...

The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) is one of the oldest scientific agencies in the United States, with a primary mission for the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Department of Defense. Located in ...

Much more than helping us arrive on time, clocks permit us to discern our location. Longitude, ... The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in London, was at the forefront of this technological rush.

We talked to an expert at the United States Naval Observatory, which runs the nation’s master clock. We interviewed an editor at the Farmers’ Almanac. We even talked to a curator of astrophysics.

On December 31 this year, a 'leap second' will be added to the world's clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time, the United States Naval Observatory has announced.

COVINGTON: U.S. Naval Observatory Master Clock. At the tone, Eastern daylight time - 11 hours, 13 minutes exactly. CHESTER: So anyway, this is Fred Covington, and he passed away on July 28 of 1993.

Filed under US, US Naval Observatory On June 30, 2012, a “leap second” will be added to the world’s clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).