On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 9:16 PM, Barry Roberts <b...@robertsr.us> wrote:
> I don't know if I've ever owned a clock that would act like that. > Maybe some really old clock with an AC motor. But they talk about the > clock on a microwave, and show a digital clock on a stove. Those all > have crystal oscillators that run on DC and I'm pretty sure would not > be affected at all by a .1% change in the AC frequency (that number > was from the radio --.1% or 344 seconds in about 6 months, I think). > I remember hearing about this problem happening somewhere. The power company was adjusting the frequency in order to avoid brownouts, or something like that. It's been a long time, and I don't remember the details, but I do remember that the clocks would run at different speeds at different times of day. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
