You changing them or leaving them for months until it's the right time again?

Four months

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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

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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.

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- It's also good for avoiding heart palpitations when you need to be on time for something and glance at the stove/microwave.
  
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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.

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- I get that can help some people if coffee is part of your morning ritual. I never did coffee as a first first thing, setting it up the machine and then going about getting ready was always how I've done it. But I totally get, if you need it first thing a timer is great.
  
  In my life personally, still can't think of any appliance off the top of my head that needs to know what time it is.
  
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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.

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You upset me

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- 😁
  
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How do you understand the wall clock though? Its 12 hour, it requires complex visual parsing. I understand if one didn't have a digital clock (which can be powered by a fucking CMOS battery for ages), maybe they could use it. But I've seen these wall clocks at a job that required fast decision making and keeping track of time, and I quit immediatly cus it took me a solid 15 to 30 seconds to parse wtf is fucking displayed on those, and that quickly got in the way of doing the job itself.

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- I posted this somewhere else but I struggled into adulthood with analog clocks and learning to read them changed my relationship with time. I forced myself to learn to do it because I read about how it can improve time management skills. Now even my smart watch has an analog watch face, and one that puts my daily schedule onto the clock itself even.
  
  Being able to read the hands and their movement kind of give a better sense of the units and movement of time itself. Totally recommend learning to properly read analog time.
  
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- That's the biggest skill issue that i've heard my entire life lmaooooo
  
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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.

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I also own a g shock with the 5610 module.

Welcome to the club buddy. The big dick g shock club.

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- The 5610/u really are one of the best watches (though I was eyeing the GW 5000U for a good while). I was debating on getting the 5610 and not the 5610u because of the green light. Came down to the 5610u because I can view time while in stopwatch mode.
  
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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

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- Only a French would ever dare to wear such a violently vomit-hued watch 😂
  
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- Oh my gosh that's crazy man. What the unicorn vomit
  
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I also have one of those. This is the only watch running correctly in my house.

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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.

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technically it's correct twice a day if you use military time

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- 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.
  
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My state doesn’t do daylight savings, so I get to avoid these useless shenanigans twice a year

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I own exactly one appliance that tries to keep the time and it has never known the correct time since I bought it. 👍

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Well for car clocks there is a very simple way to fix daylight saving time. Wait 6months.

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Bold of You to assume it was ever running correctly.

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I left my bathroom clock on standard time, because it's hard to reach. Now I have to remember that it's correct again.

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I do the same lol.

Though not because it's hard to reach, it's just my silent protest to changing the time.

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My Casio gets updated daily from an atomic clock. It knows what time it is.

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weird flex but ok

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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

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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.

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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.

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*wrong time.

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Does anyone really know what time it is?

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does anyone really care?

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I mean, it takes a minute at most to change the device's time, so I don't mind doing it.

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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)

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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.

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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.

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My power goes out so often, they get updated regularly.

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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..

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My car has been on standard time for years now, so it's currently correct.

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casio f91 mentioned lez go

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Wrong time again...

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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.

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The cooker beats me every time. I usually have to turn it off and on at midnight.

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Sometimes I live in the future.

Sometimes I live in the past.

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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.

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NTP?

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- 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.
  
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Damn I forgot about my basic appliances

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lets just let this stupid system die. lets just set the clocks to a half hour between sometime in january and never change our clocks again.

But as a counter point and equivalent exchange, lets illegalize________________

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