[sed3]

Electricity exchange grid needs to be phased within 60Hz, that is a delay of a few milliseconds. Baltic states hate Russia, but they are still connected this way for example.

Maybe you do not care, but this stuff is extremely important. Airplanes could crash over a few seconds difference!

[hermitdev]

> Electricity exchange grid needs to be phased within 60Hz

Electric grids also make use of DC interconnects that obliviate the need for that synchronization. The contiguous 48 US states have at least 3 separate grids that are interconnected. Roughly east/west/Texas. There may be more, but I'm out of touch with it.

[throw46365]

Interesting.

Though I wasn't really thinking about phase sync when I was talking about time and cross-border electricity (indeed, hadn't occurred to me!)

Just scheduling, switching, co-ordination etc. It is likely to me that other international things, both physical and logical) rely at least as much on time being accurate to the second.

[Scoundreller]

Looks like the Baltics are looking to synchronize with the rest of Europe by 2025 (and already stopped trading with Russia in 2022):

https://elering.ee/en/synchronization-continental-europe

[NikkiA]

> 60Hz

ITYM 50Hz