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1. M. Verdone (sixohsix@icosahedron.website)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Mar-2018 07:30:41 EST M. Verdone

   In further proof that we live in a cyberpunk future already, 113 GWh of electricity have "gone missing" in Kosovo/Serbia, and as a result all the wall clocks in continental Europe are six minutes behind.

   https://www.entsoe.eu/news-events/announcements/announcements-archive/Pages/News/2018-03-06-press-release-continuing-frequency-deviation-in-the-continental-european-power-system.aspx

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   1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Mar-2018 07:48:42 EST clacke

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      @sixohsix Well, those wall clocks that use the network frequency for pacing. I don't know how common those are. The bedroom radio alarm clocks and oven clocks the article mentions are more likely than most wall clocks.
      
      In our highschool they had wall clocks that were listening to a German atomic clock signal on shortwave. One of us found out the radio frequency and used the electrical network in the school as an antenna and made all the clocks freeze by putting out a continuous wave. :-)
      
      When the clocks later discovered they were all wrong, they would first reset to 12:00, then spin on until they got to the correct time. That was fun to see too.