Saturday, September 23
Time after timeAs reset the clocks for the fourth time since last night due to four power outages, some of which were only at our house (grrr...if anyone from NES is a reader, I'm tawkin' to you, we've been fighting this battle for years), I am left wondering:
Why is it that when the power returns, the minutes are always closer to the "6" neighborhood than the "12" neighborhood (to where a digital clock usually defaults), thus ensuring that you must scroll through every clock in the house around thirty times?
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I do not know the answer. But I do know that that is a "law".
Just one more of those things that make you say hmmm
I don't know the answer to this but am now going to devote several hours of brain power to it. So, THANKS A LOT.
I'm with Bev - I think the power companies have it in their bylaws as some little-known but oft-exercised clause.
Sorry I haven't been commenting much recently, but hang in there and just think of all the calories you're burning while pushing a wheelchair around.
I just got a new alarm clock that resets automatically to satellite time. The only tricky thing is that it resets it to EST first, and I'm PST, so I'm not sure what good it will do me if it happens in the middle of the night. By the way, I'm a long-time lurker...