Time stood still
By BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (45488)
St. Catharines, Ontario
January 30, 2018 10:28am CST
I awoke to see the time on my clock radio flashing 2:30. I was definitely later than that. I thought that we had had a power failure in the night.
I checked the clock on the stove, and it too was flashing 2:30. Oddly enough, the clock on the microwave had the correct time and did not flash. So did the one in the thermostat.
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@BarBaraPrz (45488)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
30 Jan 18
@shaggin Thanks. That makes more sense.
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@BarBaraPrz (45488)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
30 Jan 18
I would, yes. But when I lived in Vancouver, if there was a power outage, one outlet still had power in my condo. That was weird, too, as I know we didn't have a generator.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
30 Jan 18
The blackout was probably very short, maybe less than 1 second, and some of your clocks have better capacitors than others... You know the good ones now
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Speaking of weird things about clocks, I have 2 clocks at home with a DCF77 receiver (the time is given to them by a radio transmitter in Germany) and last week one of these clocks gave me during several hours the GMT hour, 1 hour less than my local hour. At a moment the clock corrected itself to give me the right time... The other one always gave the right time. I have DCF77 clocks since more than a decade, I had never seen this before.
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Speaking of weird things about clocks, I have 2 clocks at home with a DCF77 receiver (the time is given to them by a radio transmitter in Germany) and last week one of these clocks gave me during several hours the GMT hour, 1 hour less than my local hour. At a moment the clock corrected itself to give me the right time... The other one always gave the right time. I have DCF77 clocks since more than a decade, I had never seen this before.2 people like this
@BarBaraPrz (45488)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
30 Jan 18
I have never heard of those clocks.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
30 Jan 18
@BarBaraPrz They work only in Europe and part of North-Africa. You have nothing to do : you have not to change the time twice a year, and they are synchronised with atomic time... when they work. Quite all radio clocks are equipped in Europe, you would not have noticed this power failure.
. Quite all radio clocks are equipped in Europe, you would not have noticed this power failure.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search DCF77 time code transmitter The low frequency T-aerial antennas of DCF77 in Mainflingen Location Mainflingen longwave transmitter, Mainflingen, Germany Coordinates 50°00'56?N 9°00'39?E? / ?5
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@Marilynda1225 (79731)
• United States
30 Jan 18
It's strange that the microwave clock didn't flash. At least you found the correct time on the microwave
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@BACONSTRIPSXXX (14351)
• West Haven, Connecticut
30 Jan 18
Either blackout or Poltergesit Activity lol
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@BarBaraPrz (45488)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
30 Jan 18
I'll go with the Poltergeist theory... I often hear strange noises here.
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@RasmaSandra (73444)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
30 Jan 18
That can be confusing. I am glad to have my mobile so I always know what time it is.
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
30 Jan 18
If only time could stand still!
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