"Robert A. LaBudde" wrote: = > They even speed up the frequency to compensate for short outages, > so clocks don't have to be reset for cumulative losses. = I've heard this claim before, but I don't see how it's possible, given th= at outages typically don't involve the entire power grid. How can they selectively increase the frequency to only the customers downstream of th= e problem? Jason Harper -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.