[time-nuts] Re: Leviton VTP24 Is this Time Accurate enough?

[Andrew Rodland]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 9:29 AM Lux, Jim <jim at luxfamily.com> wrote:

>
> When your requirement is "turn the lights on and off with the sun" 5
> min/year is pretty good.
>
>
When I bought my current house, I forgot to call the electric company
before closing, and they turned off the power right at 5am of the day I
moved in.

I called them that very day, but since it was the Friday of a holiday
weekend, they said they couldn't send someone out to get it turned back on
until Tuesday, so we had a nice time in the house without power.

On Tuesday, right exactly at 5:00, the power came back on. And the old
mechanical timer that turned the driveway light on around sunset and back
off in the morning didn't need to be adjusted at all — it had missed
exactly 96 hours, and came back to life without noticing the difference.

Andrew