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.
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.
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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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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
I have a digital watch and a stove clock and microwave clock.
My doctor is younger than me, and she wouldn’t shut up about needing to change the clocks.
They also spend five minutes explaining driving directions.
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…
My phone may change the time automatically, but my brain doesn’t 😐
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.
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.