They also spend five minutes explaining driving directions.
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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.
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.
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!
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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.
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I have a digital watch and a stove clock and microwave clock.
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
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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
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.
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.
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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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My “smart” microwave lets me sync time from my phone on demand, but can’t support ntp. Thanks, LG.
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