[time-nuts] Weird TEC data
cook michael
michael.cook at sfr.fr
Wed Aug 3 16:39:30 UTC 2011
Le 03/08/2011 17:32, Francis Grosz a écrit :
> Hi, Scott,
>
> Here in New Orleans a friend in the power company who was interested in its history told me a story. In the very early days, frequency control was pretty poor and it was hard to keep up with the changing load. So by 5 PM every day, every electric clock in the city was 10 or 15 minutes slow. So overnight they'd speed up the system and so by 8 AM the next morning every electric clock would be 10 or 15 minutes fast because the total slip during the day was 20 or 30 minutes.
Good story. Hmmm,
If I was the power company boss I'd have given all my employees a
nice shiny mains clock when they joined ...
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