Aaaahhh . . .

We could not figure out why, every evening we'd set our clock, and every morning we'd wake up to discover that it was now three hours earlier than it should have been. Then I read this on the discussion board on Facebook:

The power here is 50 cycles per second, unlike the US, which is 60. That means plug in clocks won't work, they use electricity to actually measure time. Battery powered clocks are the way to go. Some microwave clocks don't work either, for the same reason.