Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks

hawguy writes with an AP story about upcoming tests of greater allowed variation in the frequency of the current carried on the U.S. electric grid: "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."

Re:"Clocks"

[gottabeme]

The word you're looking for is "nitpick".

Re:"Clocks"

[jpmorgan]

You're telling me that an Internet denizen who's only been exposed to this idea for 5 minutes doesn't know more than the engineers who have been running the system for decades?

That goes against everything /. stands for!