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.
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
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 car’s clock needs manual resetting, so does my old radio alarm that turns on NPR in the morning. Coffeemaker, microwave, and oven all have clocks, and the wall clock of course. Most of these, I never use as a precise time reference, because they run slow or fast. They’re more for timing food or laundry, or counting the seconds while I grind coffee… Except one day I will glance and think I have a lot more time than I really do, so best to make sure they are at least close to correct.
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.
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!
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.
It’s everywhere, but not all devices have the radio
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?
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.
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 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
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
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
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/
My doctor is younger than me, and she wouldn’t shut up about needing to change the clocks.
My car has two clocks and one automatically changes (I assume CarPlay) and the other has a setting that turn dst on or off.
My car clock needs moving still, and it’s slower because it’s analogue for some reason
Even Doc Brown had to change the clock in his car.
It’s probably not exactly analog, it’s probably still quartz crystal digital, even if it displays as an analog clock with hands.
Pictures speak a thousand words…
Its 40C outside (over 110F) so im not going to take a photo. It has physical hands, although i don’t know if that means anything.
If you truly care to find out, the car is a Nissan Skyline 370 GT.
May I ask year model?
I’m almost certain that even with mechanical clock hands, it’s still almost certainly timed by a quartz crystal these days, and even for the past 30+ years.
The quartz crystal is usually supposed to ‘tick’ at a rate of 32,768 cycles per second, but not all quartz crystal timers are made to perfect timing.
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