A dispute between two countries slowed clocks down across Europe by six minutes

When nations fight things can get ugly, but did you know it can also slow down time? That’s what happened across several European countries, allegedly due to poor relations between Serbia and Kosovo — two Balkan nations with a long history of conflict. 

On Tuesday ENTSO-E, the organisation representing electricity transmission operators across 25 European countries, released a press statement saying that deviations in electrical grid were causing electrical clocks across Europe to run about six minutes slow. Read more…

But how? And why? And also… just how?

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Source: Mashable | A dispute between two countries slowed clocks down across Europe by six minutes