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#1 calronmoonflower Jun 24, 2011 17:52:37	Article I honestly had no idea that clocks could work that way.
#2 Cpt_Micha Jun 24, 2011 18:30:10	I makes sense when you think about it. I'll be curious to see what affects this really has.
#3 jetshield Jun 24, 2011 19:16:02	If I'm late for work can I blame it on the power companies and sue?
#4 calronmoonflower Jun 24, 2011 19:33:14	I'll be curious to see what affects this really has. I'll likely need to adjust my VCR and alarm clock more often.
#5 draco1119 Jun 24, 2011 21:04:06	Let's see... Don't most timeclocks at the worksite still operate electrically? This is typical government.
#6 lokiare Jun 25, 2011 20:40:27	For a while there they were toying with using the power coming into and out of your house to send and receive data, kinda like a connection to the internet. The problem lies in sensitive electronics. All of them would have to be upgraded... you remember the fridgerator commercials where the repairman shows up and the lady didn't call him the fridge did...
#7 lokiare Jun 25, 2011 21:00:01	That idea works rather well actually. I've got an item that turnes the wiring in my house into the tranciever for my PS3's eathernet access port. Reception speed is faster than wireless was. Your lucky then. Some equipment will break down and burn out if exposed to the fluctuations that it causes...
#8 capitan_estaban Jun 25, 2011 22:29:15	Ah, 20 mins / year. Who cares. Perhaps we would have saved some fraction of the 1 billion or so dollars we spent each year for the NIST to run the automated telephone time of day service. Normal 60Hz=60/s*60s/m*60m/hr*24h/d*365d/y=1,892,160,000 New XHz=60Hz + additional cycles per year equal to 20m*60s/m*60cycles/s= 72,000 additional cycles/sec New frequency is 60.002283105Hz. If your electronic equipment is so senstitive that is breaks when this happens, you probably shouldn't by such cheap junk.