Let’s say the electricity got cut off and I go to sleep. When I wake up, if the electricity is back, I would like to know what time exactly it got restored.
Is there a mechanism I can set up to find out what time the electricity is restored after it was cut off?
I have a mains powered digital clock. It has no backup battery and the time is reset when the power comes back on. The display flashes until I set the time, but continues to advance from 00:00 so I know there has been a power cut (if I was out) and I can work out when the power came back on, because it is telling me how long ago it was.
I also have the type of time switch that rotates by electric motor, with pegs to flip its internal switch. At power loss it stops turning, and at restoration it continues without being reset. So this device tells me how long the power was off, from how slow its clock is.
From those two clocks I can also work out when the power loss occurred.