On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:09:49 -0700, "azotic"
wrote:

(AP) WASHINGTON (AP) - A yearlong experiment with the nation's electric grid
could mess up traffic lights, security systems and some computers - and make
plug-in clocks and appliances like programmable coffeemakers run up to 20
minutes fast.

"East Coast clocks may run as much as 20 minutes fast over a year, but
West Coast clocks are only likely to be off by 8 minutes. In Texas,
it's only an expected speed-up of 2 minutes." This proves three
things, though everybody already knew them as facts:

1)There -is- such a thing as a New York Second

2) They're slow down in Texas.
and
3) The West Coast is Weird.

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"A lot of people are going to have things break and they're not going to
know why," said Demetrios Matsakis, head of the time service department at
the U.S. Naval Observatory, one of two official timekeeping agencies in the
federal government.


Read mo
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/...#ixzz1QGjmtbRD

So will shop motors run slower or faster ?

A tad faster, if anything. You'll be more efficient in the shop, Tom.

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