On 09/03/2018 00:21, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:46:31 -0000, Andy Burns wrote:

They've lost 5 minutes worth of cycles since mid-January

https://www.entsoe.eu/news-events/announcements/announcements-archive/Pages/News/Frequency-deviations-in-Continental-Europe-including-impact-on-electric-clocks-steered-by-frequency.aspx

Why the **** are we trying to synch the whole ****ing grid instead of
just.... stop using outdated piece of **** clocks that actually use the
mains to keep time!!!

There may not be many synchronous *clocks* around nowadays, but there
must be *millions* of synchronous *timeswitches" in use for various
purposes, from Economy 7 metering to the ones used to fool burglars into
thinking there are people at home by switching the lights on and off at
arbitrary intervals.

(The cops used to give away the latter; I've never known quite how to
use them: do you only use them when going out for the evening, or, also,
when you go away on holiday? If the latter, do you open, or close the
curtains? If you leave them closed it would make the house look
unoccupied; if open, people would be able to see inside at night when
the lights come on. And are they even effective in deterring burglars,
or are they just to make people /feel/ safer?)

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Max Demian