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Re: Funky clock

To: mgs@autox.team.net, cdelling@mail.ic.net
Subject: Re: Funky clock
From: jurrasm@genesis.torrco.com (Mark Jurras)
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 07:57:40 -0400
> Reply-To: "Christopher M. Delling" <cdelling@mail.ic.net>

> I 
> noted that my normally reliable quarz dash clock was a little fast.  I 
> reset it to the proper time, but then realized that it was running fast 
> - i.e. the second hand made one revolution in around 20 seconds!  I 
> reset the beast again after parking the car in the garage, and now, 24 
> hours later it is still reading correctly.
> 
> Any ideas?  I thought that my alternator might be overcharging, but 
> other electrics seem unaffected.

It shouldn't be the alternator since the clock speed is not dependent
on voltage. I would attribute it to the recent lunar eclipse in the
northern hemisphere this past week. You shouldn't have any trouble
until the next one in 2000.


- -Mark "New Age" Jurras

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