• SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
    4·
    30 days ago

    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…

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
    8·
    29 days ago

    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.

  • umbraroze@lemmy.world
    2·
    29 days ago

    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.

      • umbraroze@lemmy.world
        3·
        29 days ago

        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.

  • Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world
    17·
    29 days ago

    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.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    30 days ago

    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.

  • renzev@lemmy.world
    8·
    29 days ago

    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

    • numanair@lemmy.ml
      3·
      29 days ago

      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.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
    17·
    30 days ago

    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.

      • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
        2·
        30 days ago

        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.

    • helloyanis@jlai.luFrançais
      3·
      29 days ago

      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