Sounds like as bad an idea as ‘low-flow’ toilets were.
I’m honestly not sure how traffic lights are controlled. It would seem to be an area of concern, that some lights might be off by five to fourteen seconds per day.
Imagine what a three second variance could cost people at street intersections. Perhaps I’m not looking at this from the proper perspective/knowledge base.
If one direction were to leave three seconds early/late, ouch...
I suppose each light would be affected by the same electricity source with variations.
I think of my VCR/DVR and other digital clocks. Good Lord, having to reset them every stinkin’ day?
Worse, since plug-in alarm clocks don’t depend on proper toilet flushes to keep accurate time. Just because crystals “can” regulate to within a second a year doesn’t mean every clock design goes to the expense of using such a crystal. They didn’t have to, when it was a given that over time, cumulative cycle counts would always return to normal. Whoever came up with this asinine idea would be kicked out of even the most redneck electrical engineering department in the land (wherever that might be) with straight F’s. Is this intended to be able to accommodate dirt-cheap solar power stations, windmills, and other corner-cutting power generator designs that can’t bother to look to a super-accurate standard like the cesium clock at WWV to keep cumulative cycle counts “going down the middle”?