On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 9:29 AM Lux, Jim <[email protected]> wrote: > > When your requirement is "turn the lights on and off with the sun" 5 > min/year is pretty good. > > When I bought my current house, I forgot to call the electric company before closing, and they turned off the power right at 5am of the day I moved in.
I called them that very day, but since it was the Friday of a holiday weekend, they said they couldn't send someone out to get it turned back on until Tuesday, so we had a nice time in the house without power. On Tuesday, right exactly at 5:00, the power came back on. And the old mechanical timer that turned the driveway light on around sunset and back off in the morning didn't need to be adjusted at all — it had missed exactly 96 hours, and came back to life without noticing the difference. Andrew _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] -- To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to and follow the instructions there.
