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ugh my microwave loses time at the briefest of electric hiccups and demands the date be inputed before the time. YOU DON"T NEED TO KNOW THE FUCKING DATE TO REHEAT MY FOOD! I mean the clocks a bit of a convenience but my toaster oven atleast remembers what the time last was. I eventually will do it but its been living groundhong day on november eleventh 2011.
Does anyone really know what time it is?
does anyone really care?
I left my bathroom clock on standard time, because it's hard to reach. Now I have to remember that it's correct again.
I do the same lol.
Though not because it's hard to reach, it's just my silent protest to changing the time.
The cooker beats me every time. I usually have to turn it off and on at midnight.
Wrong time again...
All clocks in my home must be perfectly synced with atomic time. I will sit there and wait until the very last moment before hitting the button to confirm the time on the microwave/stove/wall clock/etc., so that it doesn't change over to the next minute until it's supposed to.
The irony is that the rest of my life is in complete chaos due to having untreated ADHD. Keeping accurate time is the one thing I care about having in order. Thankfully DST doesn't exist where I live so I rarely have to re-sync everything more than once every couple of years or so.
My state doesn’t do daylight savings, so I get to avoid these useless shenanigans twice a year
My stove has been blinking 00:00 for as long as I can remember. Lost power briefly about 6 months after I moved in and I never reset the clock.
technically it's correct twice a day if you use military time
Wouldn't it be correct just once a day if it's military time? 00:00 would only be 12:00 AM. Noon would just be 12:00.
My power goes out so often, they get updated regularly.
My Casio gets updated daily from an atomic clock. It knows what time it is.
weird flex but ok
*wrong time.
Well for car clocks there is a very simple way to fix daylight saving time. Wait 6months.
Bold of You to assume it was ever running correctly.
I really wish there was like a lil i2c port on the back of every device so you could just plug in a lil clock synchronizer thingy and it would tell the device what time it is. Like it probably wouldn't even cost that much to implement for the manufacturers. Standardizing on the connector and protocol would be a bitch tho
I like this idea.
I have an appliance that resets the time to midnight when plugged in. I had an idea to connect a smart plug to it on a schedule to set the time automatically.
The clock on the wall and watch, yeah, I actually use those for time. Everything else is more like, lol wtf does my coffee machine need the correct time for anyway
It's more for programming when to brew coffee in the morning than for telling time. Then you can wake up and get coffee without having to think about it. Not that it's hard, but I'm sure removing that one little task makes many people's mornings a lot easier.
It's also good for avoiding heart palpitations when you need to be on time for something and glance at the stove/microwave.
Fair. I know I'm in the minority of people who feels they need a watch and constantly checks it, so anything other than the device on my wrist is just extra. Since I was a kid I've felt lost if I wasn't wearing one.
Only watch i ever wore was a calculator watch. I lost it quickly, and my parents wouldn't get me so much as a slap bracelet after that. So never wore a watch.
I have no sense of time, so I need a clock strapped to my arm.
With a regular drip coffee maker, a lot of people prep it before bed. Take a couple minutes to put the filter, coffee grounds, and water in the tank and set the timer so it is ready to go when they walk into the kitchen in the morning. Saves a couple minutes in the morning and can get that caffeine addiction hit right out the gate.
The stove I don't get, but the coffee machine needs it so that you can set it to run 5 minutes before your alarm goes off in the morning. Getting a coffee machine with a timer recently has revolutionized my morning TBH.
I mean, it takes a minute at most to change the device's time, so I don't mind doing it.
But have you considered that the action of changing the time requires you to make a choice, get up, shift context, actually do it, then shift back, tiring you out?
This was made by the mental illness gang
(send help /j)
except my grandma's stove which has a broken handle and sensor so it just guesses if you're going forward or backwards and will randomly increment by like 15. I got it within 20 minutes then gave up because using pliers on the mangled remains of a stove knob was really annoying.
I'm here to brag about my new watch. The Casio Gshock GWM 5610U. Auto syncs to the atomic clock every night. Synced last midnight and adjusted for DST without me touching it. Fucking love this watch.
Then let me brag as well
That's mine, the best looking watch I've ever seen! Very durable and although it does not adjust automatically for DST it's just 1 option to toggle in order to change it
The model name is GM-110-RB
Oh my gosh that's crazy man. What the unicorn vomit
Only a French would ever dare to wear such a violently vomit-hued watch 😂
Well, it certainly isn't the kind of watch that goes unnoticed, but I like it and that is what matters in the end!
I also have one of those. This is the only watch running correctly in my house.
I also own a g shock with the 5610 module.
Welcome to the club buddy. The big dick g shock club.
Luckily the only devices I have that need to be manually set to correct time are my cameras. And I set the time on them fairly frequently anyway because the clocks drift by half a minute every few months.
NTP?
I mean, every other device with a clock that I have use NTP.
All of the cameras I have do have wifi/bluetooth, but at least as far my Nikon cameras go, last time I tried it using the app reliably on my phone was a bit of a hassle. Ricoh pocket camera was said to have an app but everyone complained how terrible it was so I didn't even bother to try it. Setting the time manually is just easier for all of the cameras.
The only camera that I have that had a reliable and easy app-based time sync was my GoPro. But then GoPro replaced their old app with this current nonsense. It just straight up doesn't pair my camera to my phone any more and pushes a subscription thing and I heard them talk about EOLing the camera ("excuse me, how the f do you 'EOL' a camera", asks this Nikon girl with a lens from the 1980s). So I had to figure out how to set the clock manually.
I own exactly one appliance that tries to keep the time and it has never known the correct time since I bought it. 👍
I don’t ever change my clocks, I just do mental math because my car clock also tends to drift roughly a minute a month so I’m used to it. Frankly I don’t even set most of them when the power goes out (phone and watch are right either way, bedroom and living room get set after outages).. but when one friend comes over they always set or change all my clocks for me because it drives them crazy..
Appliance clocks can be useful, but I typically don’t use the pre-set or programmed features anyway so meh. I think in 10 years I’ve used the scheduled bake on my oven once, and that’s about as much as I’ve used any of the program features on any appliances..
My car has been on standard time for years now, so it's currently correct.
As long as they're only a minute or two off, I don't mind as much. Especially since I mostly use my desktop/laptop/phone/other Internet connected devices most of the time if I need accurate readings.
