🚀 go-pugleaf

I'd say that a grounded outlet is important.  Perhaps this is not
directly related, but recently, during a thunderstorm, a power
surge caused the breakers to "blow" in my office.  The power surge
was enough to kill the clock circuit in my Mac (which I was using
at the time).

Since I don't really use the alarm clock DA all that much, I didn't
see the problem until I noticed (the next day) that all of the files
I had been working on had a timestamp of January 20, 1904 :-).  Perhaps
the CMOS circuit of which the clock is a part is more sensitive to
voltage spikes than is the rest of the Mac, since everything else was
OK.

Cheers, and watch out for lightning,

Willie

"What a coincidence!  I was just thinking about Liza Minelli's
 orthopedic hosiery!!  Now we *have* to get married!!" - Zippy the Pinhead