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.
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 cooker beats me every time. I usually have to turn it off and on at midnight.
My power goes out so often, they get updated regularly.
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.
My state doesn’t do daylight savings, so I get to avoid these useless shenanigans twice a year
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.
*wrong time.
Sometimes I live in the future.
Sometimes I live in the past.
My car has been on standard time for years now, so it’s currently correct.
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
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.
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.
Does anyone really know what time it is?
does anyone really care?
I own exactly one appliance that tries to keep the time and it has never known the correct time since I bought it. 👍
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.
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 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.
Yeah, that’s absolutely fair enough to be honest. I’m the kind of guy that likes to sleep in as much as possible and take my mornings real slow, so cutting off the extra 10 minutes that it used to take me to make coffee… sweet. My partners’ family’s fridge has a clock in it though, and I’ll never understand that. I think coffee machine is where I draw the line.
cutting off the extra 10 minutes that it used to take me to make coffee
What!? How does it take you 10min? I weigh, grind with a manual grinder and brew with a manual-lever espresso maker (that I also have to preheat with hot water)…it’s about as slow as it can possibly be and I still don’t take 10min to make my morning espresso.
It takes me 10 minutes to do anything when I first wake up in the morning, coffee or no, to be fair. I’m not a morning person. I also manually grind my beans (using one of those older hopper-and-box grinders), and do a V60 pourover with water slightly cooler than boiling (somewhere between 80-90°C, based off vibes I don’t have a temperature controlled kettle).
Or at least, I did, before I switched to a machine. Still do the V60 later in the day, tho, it’s a nice little ritual.
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.
That’s the biggest skill issue that i’ve heard my entire life lmaooooo
You upset me
😁
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.
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.
