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.
Sure, most of my clocks auto set, but not everything does. I had to manually set the clock on my stove, coffee pot, microwave, etc.
I just let them stay silly until they’re correct again
That’s no way to live, son
Time is just an illusion we created to fool ourselves into thinking is important.
They also spend five minutes explaining driving directions.
Younger people always remind me that they are young. I have used many clocks over many years that I need to manually reset. Younger people don’t seem to realize that most people have appliances they don’t want to connect to the internet.
Very silly.
“Kids these days…”
The clocks built into appliances aren’t generally being relied upon to wake people up for work or school or whatever else is time sensitive, so it’s not particularly important that people be reminded to change them when the time change occurs. Phone clock updates automatically, and that’s the alarm for the overwhelming majority of people young enough to not be living in assisted care.
Maybe taking it a little too seriously, but thank you for putting a joke in there at the end.
You don’t want to connect them to the internet? Like what, your oven? You don’t want your oven connected to the internet?! What if you have to raise or lower the cooking temperature or change the cooking time? If you’re doing that on the oven itself, you’re missing literal seconds away from your telephone screen. It can add up to minutes over the course of a week, depending on how often you cook. So now you know!
/s
I remember a few years ago there was some super popular brand of smoker (like to cook food) that had an internet connection. On Thanksgiving Day they pushed out a software update that made the smoker unsuable to several hours. I saw tons of posts of people who were planning to cook their Thanksgiving turkey in their smoker but couldn’t use it because it was undergoing a system update.
Lol what a time to push updates. I would donate that smoker and never buy that brand again if it happened to me.
I found it. It was a pellet grill, not a smoker, from Trager Grills. They’re a pretty big and reputable company. And they’re an American company, so it’s not even like they didn’t know it was a holiday in the US.
Really! It almost feels like trolling to be an American company and push an update on a major cooking holiday. Lol
A device doesn’t need an internet connection for daylight time adjustment. It would only need that to update its internal rules when the future clock shifts change
I wasn’t being technical. I was giving a light hearted ribbing to someone younger. When you counter that with “well actually” you take the fun out of it.
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.
Had to reset the clock on my stove, microwave, coffee maker, and cars.
It’s no where near obsolete as you seem to imply.
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!
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.
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✌️
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)
My stove did need setting, but my 84 yo father in law’s car did set itself.
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.
I have a digital watch and a stove clock and microwave clock.
clocks on phones and other devices reset automatically.
Fun fact, once my country decided to end daylight savings abruptly, and apparently propagating this info to phones isn’t exactly trivial?
So on the day they would start, some phones jumped 1 hour forward, some didn’t, seemingly randomly. That was a fun one.
I’ve stopped trusting automatic time adjustments since then.Most likely a software update should’ve arrived from your phone’s OS vendor, to update the machanism that automatically changes the hour per a specific country/region. My guess is those phones that continued to switch to DST never got the update.
You know what’s easier, though?
Not having DST. At all.
Completely agree!
Yeah, I suppose the issue lies with the fact that something like this shouldn’t be tied to OS updates, specially in Android land where most manufacturers stop offering them long before the devices become obsolete.
Indeed, but it is a bit hard to disable DST without some sort of “intervention” from the manufacturer. The code to change DST is already in the phone, at the time when you buy. And let’s assume at a later time, a country decides to abandon DST. The code in your phone needs to be altered by the manufacturer to disable this. Which happens via updates
I’ve stopped trusting automatic time adjustments since then.
AFIAK its built in. I like to turn off my automatic time setting to see how much the clock would drift (just curious lol), and the clock still jumped forward.
Older people don’t seem to realize clocks on phones and other devices reset automatically.
That’s not it.
In times before there were things like cell phones and auto updating clocks, people would use the upcoming change as a conversational item to interact with each other socially about.
Kind of like how people sometimes talk about the upcoming weather.
I’m actually glad I didn’t notice to change my mechanical watch, it helped me understand which way the time shifted - even after a day of post-incident investigation and report writing where I had to convert PST to UTC and back…
Insurance defense?
nah tech infra shit
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.
pepperidge farm remembers
Man the year we learned how to change the speed of Earth’s rotation temporarily was a huge innovation for that feat.
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.
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.
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 😒
My cellphone changes automatically and so does the alarm clock that we never use. But the stove, microwave, decorative clock, and thermostat all need to be changed manually. And I still have a VCR and know how to set the time on it but it doesn’t update automatically.
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
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.
