I haven’t used a clock in years that I need to manually reset. Older people don’t seem to realize clocks on phones and other devices reset automatically.
There was a period of time when some devices did the change automatically, while others needed you to manually do it. Given that you could be late for something important, it makes sense to check whether your devices are up to date. For example, my phone will change it on its own, but my fitness tracker needs to sync with my phone to do it, so it would be easy to forget and find myself running to a late appointment.
I remember back when clocks were essentially sticks in the ground, you had to manually drag the sun across the sky by a few degrees to change the time. Those were the days, twice a year.
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Man the year we learned how to change the speed of Earth’s rotation temporarily was a huge innovation for that feat.
My doctor is younger than me, and she wouldn’t shut up about needing to change the clocks.
My phone may change the time automatically, but my brain doesn’t 😐
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Lol, “modern weather prediction” which is still as wrong as much as it’s right, on an hourly basis.
We just don’t have that kind of predictive capability, yet, as weather systems are dynamic/chaotic.
Many times I’ve left the house with no prediction of precipitation, and been caught out. And I use multiple weather apps, including radar apps.
If modern weather prediction says 80% chance of showers, you really should have that umbrella. If it says sunny skies, you can use it as a parasol. And it’s also helpful if you’re attacked by cops with teargas, even “rubber” bullets.
Don’t worry with the way Trump is handling NOAA, weather prediction will soon return to the good old days.
The real conversation is why the fucking fuck are we still doing the time change shit??? Push your local representative to get their head out of their ass and vote to stop day light savings bullshit. I thought it was passed already and waiting to be instilled but apparently I was wrong and the fucking bill is still stuck in congress.
I’m personally a fan of permanent DST. People around me always comment that they’d be going to work in the dark in the winter if we had permanent DST. Buddy, we live in Canada, we already do in the winter.
I can’t lie, I really did enjoy daylight savings. Leaving work and still having lots of sunshine time was awesome, made me feel really alive. Leaving work when it’s already dark outside is kinda depressing.
Though obviously changing time itself is very impractical, would be much easier to just change our working hours right? Yet it seems like getting companies to let their workers leave even 30m earlier is akin to pulling teeth 😒The real conversation is why the fucking fuck are we still doing the time change shit??? Push your local representative to get their head out of their ass and vote to stop day light savings bullshit. I thought it was passed already and waiting to be instilled but apparently I was wrong and the fucking bill is still stuck in congress.
Parents don’t like their young children going to school in the dark, basically.
Also, farmers.Edit: Apparently, not farmers.So why not shift the school starting time instead?
So why not shift the school starting time instead?
People use schools as daycare, as well as schedule their own events around it. In other words, you’d have to shift all schedules, not just the school start ones.
Not that I’m necessarily disagreeing with you. I always thought school should start later in the morning, so students are actually somewhat awake when they are there.
Homie I live in Farmersville, USA and there isn’t a fuckbilly from here to Hicktown, USA that is guna bitch about the time it says on the clock vs what they have to do in the time they have with the sun up.
As far as schools, I stand by my point. Maybe it’ll make the idiots dumb enough to invest in a crotch fruit or two totake a look at the learning efficiency of kids and teens after the 5 hr mark. It’s dumb as fuck having kids go to school 35 hrs a week or whatever it may be.
Homie I live in Farmersville, USA and there isn’t a fuckbilly from here to Hicktown, USA that is guna bitch about the time it says on the clock vs what they have to do in the time they have with the sun up.
I’ll take you at your word as being right, since you have “boots on the ground”.
For what its worth, I’ve watched plenty of interviews on news shows about it over many years, and it allways gets said that farmers want DST. But apparently that’s not true.
As far as schools, I stand by my point. Maybe it’ll make the idiots dumb enough to invest in a crotch fruit or two totake a look at the learning efficiency of kids and teens after the 5 hr mark. It’s dumb as fuck having kids go to school 35 hrs a week or whatever it may be.
What the hell does that have to do with parents not wanting their children waiting for the morning bus in the dark? Edit: Not that I’m necessarily disagreeing with you, just saying that’s not the point I’m making.
What the hell does that have to do with parents not wanting their children waiting for the morning bus in the dark? Edit: Not that I’m necessarily disagreeing with you, just saying that’s not the point I’m making.
Shortening the school day would kill two birds with one stone, they’d start later so they aren’t going to school in the dark, and also improving a child’s learning efficiency by not burning them out.
Had to reset the clock on my stove, microwave, coffee maker, and cars.
It’s no where near obsolete as you seem to imply.
Mostly all of those too, except my cars. My cars grab their time info from GPS and update automatically. Have for the past few cars I’ve had, but they’ve all been German.
Most of us don’t bother with that. The only clock I manually change is the one on my car. The other appliances are always blinking 00:00 from whenever the last power outage was.
I will say that it’s useful having an always visible clock in the kitchen when cooking. For me that’s the microwave.
Technically it doesn’t need to be accurate, though, because it’s for time differences (boil for 10 minutes, etc)
Stove, microwave, and two battery-operated dial clocks here. I didn’t go anywhere today, so I’ll find out in the morning if the car needs it. I honestly don’t remember. The Rice cooker just cycled back to correct. :-)
Here in germany i think there’s a radio signal being transmitted on a dedicated frequency that does nothing but distribute the current time information to digital devices. It’s really useful!
Canada had that up to last year.
Huh. That does sound pretty damn useful.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF77
Id never even heard of it in Canada.
don’t worry. i got chu.
America/US?
Wow! So much nerdy information! I love it! See y’all next year✌️
It’s everywhere, but not all devices have the radio
That’s existed since at least the 60’s, maybe even earlier.
And electric clocks used to get their timing from the frequency of the electrical system, and power companies would compensate for any daily variations by changing the frequency over night so any timing systems would be back in sync.
Commercial buildings often used these kinds of clocks.
Are you sure you’re talking about the same thing as me? Sounds like devices use the 50/60 Hz grid frequency instead of an internal resonator/frequency generator to count forward the seconds. But it doesn’t tell the device “what time is it now” when you first switch it on.
My stove did need setting, but my 84 yo father in law’s car did set itself.
My “smart” microwave lets me sync time from my phone on demand, but can’t support ntp. Thanks, LG.
it will truly be a great day for humanity when our smart microwave can display accurate time derived from literally differences in things travelling the speed of light and atomic decay with redundant backups and systems designed to withstand nuclear war
a great day indeed
The best feature from my new microwave was the ability to turn off both the standby clock and the beeping. Revolutionary.
Sidenote: I hope someone manages to work out what protocol LG uses, so you can have your microwave continuously display time 13:37 or something else dumb lol
I’m 42 years old, and I have a fairly new watch, a Casio WS-1300H. Made in like 2022 I think. It’s not smart, if anything it’s just as dumb as a watch from 30 years ago.
But it runs on a button cell battery, said to have a battery life of like 10 years, as long as you don’t use the backlight too often.
Yes, I had to manually change the option for Daylight Savings Time, but they make it really easy to do, it’s all in the manual.
https://www.casio.com/za/watches/casio/product.WS-1300H-8AV/
Haha I almost 100% agree. Alas I do have a stove and microwave clock that requires resetting but it’s kind of hilariously obvious that I need to update them each time. I come into the kitchen and think “oh yeah…” :D
You don’t have a car, oven, or microwave that isn’t internet connected?
This is the worst timeline
Some devices doesn’t need internet.
If they can count the days of the years, its possible the DST fuction is already built in.
Why would you want a stove that knows the year, month, or date? Like seriously, just because something can have a feature doesn’t mean it must have it! Day of week? … possibly (but weird). Anything past that is just dumb.
If the device doesn’t have Internet access I don’t want it to have DST built in. Time changes can be dependent on changes in your government. We’ve already had its start date changed years ago. Recently there’s even been some vocal officials talking about ending it entirely.
EDIT: typo
My oven doesnt have a clock. And dont rely on my car for the time. It cant even keep accurate time anyway.
You don’t have any clocks in your house or your car? Not even on your microwave?
I guess I don’t have any self control. I’m horrible for scrolling on my phone all day. If I needed it to know what time it is, or had to keep it in the bedroom to use as an alarm clock, I’d be toast.
No house clocks and I don’t drive
And you think old people are the outlier when you don’t have an oven or a microwave? No thermostat with a timer?
All the clocks in my house became correct today. You think I’m changing them twice a year when I can just subtract one??
my only manually-set clock is correct again. well, it’s off 12 hours and flashes but the numbers are right.
power went out for a few seconds a number of years ago at exactly 12noon (they switched over some equipment or something; a planned event). never bothered to ‘set’ the time since i don’t use its alarm anymore anyway.
i do similarly, i remind people this is nonsense and we shouldn’t be changing ours clocks automatically or otherwise twice a year
My car has two clocks and one automatically changes (I assume CarPlay) and the other has a setting that turn dst on or off.
