At the heart of all computers is a clock, a dedicated timepiece ensuring that all of the parts of the computer are synchronized and can work together to execute the instructions that the computer ...

On most modern computers, you can either set the clock manually or have it automatically sync with an internet clock server that will tell it what time it is. You may find your computer clock ...

Q: My clock has always kept correct time until last week, when it became slow. The computer is less than a year old. I have set the correct time on several occasions, but it still falls behind.

There are a number of reasons a computer can fail to keep good time ... Dan’s netbook is set to the wrong time zone. Readjusting the clock fixes the problem for his current session, but every ...

When the German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse built the world’s first programmable computer in war time Berlin, it performed floating point arithmetic at a clock speed of between 5 and 10 Hz. The ...