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Maybe your VCR isn't blinking 12:00. But are you sure it's telling the right time? For the past year, a number of VCRs around the United States weren't, according to an article in the October issue of IEEE Spectrum that discusses the mysterious case of the VCR clock.
In the San Francisco Bay area the clocks were 24 minutes fast. In other parts of the country they were one, two, or three hours slow. But why? Solving the mystery took an enterprising newspaper journalist, complaining consumers, and a group of Public Broadcasting System engineers.
Contact: Tekla S. Perry, 650 328 7570, [email protected].For faxed copies of the complete article ["Does anybody really know what time it is?," by Tekla S. Perry, IEEE Spectrum, October 2000, pp. 26-28] or to arrange an interview, contact: Nancy T. Hantman, 212 419 7561, [email protected].
URL: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org
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