Nuclear Crisis Stopped Time In Japan 188
angry tapir writes "The problems at Japan's Fukushima-1 nuclear plant have had an unexpected impact on the country's ability to keep time: a transmitter that sends the national time signal to many thousands of clocks and watches has been forced offline making the timepieces a little less reliable than usual."
a French poem about stopping the time, (Score:3, Interesting)
-- French poem by Lamartine http://astronad.voila.net/Lamartine.htm [voila.net]
Re:Worst headline ever. (Score:4, Interesting)
You mean if I don't synchronize my clock with the atomic clock more than every few days, it will be more than 20 seconds off?
Most wristwatches I've owned have a disclaimer in the manual that they keep time with a margin of error ±15 seconds per month. Those are the cheap Casios. I'm sure TV stations etc. have a better clock than me.
Re:And? (Score:4, Interesting)
Good thing there is still GPS, NTP, etc.
That's what I've been wondering. With constant GPS signal all over the place, what do we need land-based atomic clock synchronisation for?
Re:Worst headline ever. (Score:5, Interesting)
With tens of thousands of suicides a year, I think not. Another example of a modern society self-driven to neurosis.
The WHO even disputes Japan's definition of suicide that makes the reported numbers an estimated three times lower.