[ale] my supposition. UPS

[Christopher R. Curzio]

I'll confess, I have a VCR. I haven't used it in a long time though. 

As for the clock, however, I don't ever need to set it. It sets ITSELF. No
joke. It gets the time from the broadcast signal fed into it. No blinking
12 for me! Hooray for smart VCRs with built-in NTP-like behavior!

And actually, even if it wasn't set, it still wouldn't blink 12. It'd just
say --:-- all day. But self-setting is pretty slick. 

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Thus Spake tfreeman at intel.digichem.net:
Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:09:28 -0400 (EDT)


> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> > I want to power my VCR through one so every time the power line
> > blinks, I don't have to reset the clock!
> 
> You bother to set the clock on the vcr??!!! How odd! I always thought
> that the blinking clock was the proper condition of a vcr.
> 
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