Something tells me it will ‘disrupt’ more than clocks.
Indeed it will.
How about the equipment in the hospitals or in homes that rely on that frequency for timing for monitoring or medications? Electric motors in your home appliances will have to work harder - creating more heat leading to earlier breakdowns.
But that's OK - we'll all get electric cars to tide us over!
It will be burning up motors,transformers,electronics etc...
Especially large power users like manufacturing...
It definitely will. A lot of alarm circuits use the 60 hz frequency for timing to guard against thieves from spoofing the power supply. Without the 60 hz power source the boards will fail. Found that out while installing an American made system in Europe that uses 50 hz.
You're right. This is going to cause MAJOR havoc for most electronic devices, unless they run only on batteries. As an example, European televisions run on 50 Hz. Try running a European model TV on 60 Hz. and see what happens. Some brands have a switch on them so you can switch between 50 and 60 Hz.