[Info-vax] clock problems with OpenVMS x86 on VirtualBox

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2023-05-16 kl. 21:23, skrev Johnny Billquist:
> On 2023-05-15 19:43, terry-... at glaver.org wrote:
>> On Monday, May 15, 2023 at 8:45:00 AM UTC-4, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> It used to be a *very* reliable clock source. Power grids used to
>>> compensate for drift because of load, so that over 24 hours, you have a
>>> very exact number of peaks on the power. All type of clocks were
>>> designed with this clock source. Sadly, I think power grids no longer
>>> are caring as much about the accuracy of the frequency.
>>
>> You can see the (near) real-time frequency deviation as well as the
>> cumulative clock drift that it causes here:
>> https://www.swissgrid.ch/en/home/operation/grid-data/current-data.html#frequency
> 
> This is way cool. I hadn't seen that one. Did you know I was in Switzerland 
> by the way, or was that just random luck?
> 
>    Johnny
> 

You have written that a couple of times over the years... :-)
And it was easy to find these:
http://www.softjar.se/
https://ch.linkedin.com/in/sillbit

:-)

Jan-Erik