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I have a relative who loves to tell the story of a school building's clocks that would show the wrong time every Monday morning. Turned out their janitor's new vacuum cleaner was putting interference on the power line and disrupting the master clock system's signal enough to require a manual reset. Problem went away after replacing the vacuum.



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