WTF????? Digital alarm clock running 35 minutes fast!!!

Anyone who has a clock that is set by the atomic clock should check it often against a regular clock or watch, to see if there is occasional variance. If the earth is slowing down, the people who run the atomic clock may make a correction.

I was playing volleyball in a school gym on may 19th, and at about 7 pm the clock on the wall started spinning fast. When it was about 2 two hours ahead, it resumed normal speed.

Depending on how you set your computer's clock, it nay or may not be adjusted to the atomic clock.

That’d be the frequency in the power lines.. it was an old trick to open safes that only open at certain hours…

Didnt the govt say that in the middle of July or something that they would be playing with the grid, and that it would speed up clocks or some shit.

Thanks for the posting this problem. Our ditigal clock is running fast also. We thought it was because the clock was old so we bought a new one and now it is running fast. The house was recently completed gutted due to a fire and all new wiring put in. So sir yes they can run fast. We were surprised also. But there are others out here that confirm we probably did not need to buy a new clcok, we just needed to plug it into a different plug in.

i had an alarm clock that was doing that, about a year and a half ago.

got rid of it, plugged a new clock into the same outlet, that clock kept time fine. just get a new clock it'll be fine.

It could be that all your other clocks slowed down man

Power line frequency testing. I hope nobody in your community hospital is on a timed IV drip, if those machines run fast, somebody may die from a overdose. X-Ray machines and other radiological machines might over expose you to radiation.

Machine shops CNC equipment: anything with servo motors may over / under travel and register wrong RPMs. Dimensions on your working material may be off

Burglar alarms / time locks/ time clocks / security equipment may malfunction.

Computer motherboard power supplies may cause problems trying to condition errant variations in power line frequency.

It all depends on where the equipment derives its base timing reference standards, either a on-board crystal oscillator or the power line 60Hz pulse. There is also a potential for a hybrid system that uses both.

I believe the power companies should comply with established standards. All the equipment made to this point is based on this standard and I believe it is irresponsible to break away and leave it to fate and unintended consequences, peoples lives maybe in jeopardy.


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^ THIS, although when I read that in June I found it very suspicious, for many reasons. One such reason is that the EXACT same thing happened about a month ago (and just a little before the US gov made this announcement) in Sicily. They were not playing around with the Hz there. Rather, it turned out to be due to mount Etna, which started spewing ash a short time later.

Where do you live OP? Are you very near a fault line?

Any amateur radio hobbyist out there reading this post, is it possible some older or even newer equipment may frequency drift off station? Some of you folks fix and really know your equipment and you maybe familiar with their design.

The reason I'm asking this that I'm wondering if power line frequency maybe used as master oscillator for the PLL digital tuning synthesizers within consumer radios and television equipment. I hope nobody has taken this approach to shave costs. It would have terrible consequences for any type of radar used for air traffic control I think.

I hope this isn't like a Y2K event.

Ref: [link to en.wikipedia.org]

this was already foresee

[link to www.nj.com]

If all the digital clocks in your area did this, it would be something.
Check around with your neighbors and friends.

Or WHO you want to do LOL

My BALLS are 20 minutes fast.

there is an experiment going on with regulation of the alternating current. it has to flow at a steady rate to keep clocks etc. on time. that is being changed to a fluctuating current. anything with a timer, like coffee makers, microwaves, clocks, will be off. sometime during july, so i guess it's started. i will try to find the link.

Thread was from last year

Just buy a brand new clock.

If the problem persists then this thread will become worthy.

At the moment it is not!

My digital alarm clock/radio always gains time. A computer that has since had to be replaced had begun synchronizing with the gained time on the digital clock although they are not plugged into the same outlet. I came to realize this as my cell phone had the correct time on it in conflict with the computer and the clock. Kind of nutty.

I awoke to find the clock reading on my radio was an hour ahead!!

No chance you forgot to set it back last fall is there?

That would be to much GLP telling you that.

Last Edited by Dapurps on 01/01/2013 11:21 AM