Sentence examples for computer clock from inspiring English sources
His invention can be a wristwatch, pocket watch, clock or computer clock.
The system was later adopted by Babylonian astronomers and through them is embedded in today's measurement of time: the "1 12 33" on a computer clock means 1 (x 60-squared) second + 12 (x 60) seconds + 33 seconds.
This often required swapping out the computer clock's crystal (whose oscillations govern a processor's speed, like a pacemaker keeping a heart beating at a certain rate) or make other fiddly hardware modifications.
Its users are offered the opportunity to download an applet that will keep their computer clock accurate.
Through some trickery (namely changing your computer clock or looking at the site's config.xml file), it's pretty easy to see what it's counting down to.
If you'd like to see the fireworks for yourself, head over to Google.com and adjust your computer clock to midnight (note that this could possibly mess up your Email or other programs).
The looming crisis of the computer clocks caused two important distortions in the government's statistics, Professors Medoff and Harless have found.
Computer users who want to keep nearly perfect time can synchronize their computer clocks with the NIST time scale by pointing the Web browser to http://www.bldrdoc.gov/timefreq/service/its.htm.htm
In total 17 firms have now pledged to contribute $100,000 annually for a minimum of three years, which will be funnelled to three projects: OpenSSL, OpenSSH, another piece of encryption protection software, and Network Time Protocol, which synchronises computer clocks.
Science does not provide a definitive answer to the question of safety, experts say, just as science could not determine beyond a doubt how computer clocks would fare at the turn of the millennium.
After some of its computers failed to cope with a leap second in 2005, Google, a search-engine firm, has begun running its computer clocks slowly for a short period before one is due, making the change gradual instead of instantaneous.
