You are one of several readers who noticed their oven, microwave or bedside clocks running fast ; some also said their DVRs were affected. The discrepancy increased over time (by about 20 seconds ...

Earlier in March we heard about a quirk of the interconnected continental European electricity grid which caused clocks to lose ... RC oscillator built in to run off battery when the power is ...

Go back one more decade, and many PCs didn’t even have a battery ... clock was not enough though: the original IBM hardware had its internal clock only updated every 55 milliseconds, which is ...

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