• @[email protected]
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    908 months ago

    My wife prefers the madness of memorizing the offset of the displayed time versus the current time. It’s not even an integer number of hours. It’s just some random value since the last power outage.

    • @ickplantOP
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      618 months ago

      My sincere condolences on being married to a mad person.

    • @[email protected]
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      8 months ago

      My wife set the clocks ahead of time, because she knows we’re always late.

      We’re always late because she thinks we have time to go, because she sets the clocks ahead of time.

      I guess she has to make up.

      • @[email protected]
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        198 months ago

        This valueable observation will help you differentiate her from an AI imposter at some point as the AI imposter would get stuck in an infinite loop with this type of behavior.

    • @Serinus
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      88 months ago

      Might as well start using GMT. At least you’ll get some value out of that.

    • dantheclamman
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      48 months ago

      I know time is relative but that’s going a bit too far

  • @[email protected]
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    488 months ago

    Jokes on you. My power is so unstable that I’m just waiting for the next power out to reset all the clocks to the correct time.

  • @hypertown
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    308 months ago

    I absolutely refuse to change time on any of my analog clocks. I hate daylight savings with passion.

    • ExFed
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      98 months ago

      I display a clock at work that I proudly label as “Standard Time” year-round. Screw daylight stealings.

  • Altima NEO
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    238 months ago

    I fucking hate dst so much. I wish we could do away with it.

  • @LemmyKnowsBest
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    228 months ago

    well I for one have been dreading this day because now the clock in my car will be wrong for 6 months.

    • @[email protected]
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      58 months ago

      Daylight Savings lasts for 8 months, so it’s better to not change your clocks during the winter time

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    Oh nooo… I guess my alarm clock will be off one hour again for the next half year

    • Apathy Tree
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      108 months ago

      Same, or until the next power outage. And then they will be wrong by who knows how much for a week or two until I set them.

  • BoofStroke
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    138 months ago

    All of this iot shit, and all we really need is the ability for everything to just use an ntp server.

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      18 months ago

      I wonder if we could set up all your devices to get that data from something like radio/Bluetooth. Then have your router/small device just send out the time from ntp and all your devices can just accept the message

      That way you don’t need an internet connected microwave

      • @grue
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        58 months ago

        If you’re going to make your device capable of setting its clock via radio, then it wouldn’t need to get its time from your router because it could just receive the signal straight from the atomic clock at NIST.

        • @[email protected]
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          Well that certainly works. At least in NA I guess. Not sure if we have an equivalent in my country but it’d make sense to set one up

  • Flying SquidM
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    138 months ago

    This is the conversation via text I had with my wife yesterday morning:

    Her: I’ll get [my daughter] up.

    Me: Not until 10.

    Her: Time change.

    Me: [looking directly at the clock on my computer] It’s 9:30.

    Her: Did time go backwards?

    Me: No. It feels like 8:30. That’s why the dogs got up at 7 instead of 6.

    Her: Sigh. I’m so confused.

    • @hypertown
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      158 months ago

      Daylight savings are so stupid. Savings are actually minimal and it’s bad for your health. If everyday you wake up at 7 your body will wake up without an alarm, now wake up at 6 because it’s a new 7. I’m sure you will wake up no problem. Now we will change it every 6 months so you will always need alarm. God! I hate it!

  • @son_named_bort
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    118 months ago

    All my appliances flash 12:00. At least they’ll be correct twice a day.

  • @cmrn
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    108 months ago

    My car battery went dead the day before the time change. I was so close.

  • 🐍🩶🐢
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    108 months ago

    I feel so heard. I refused to change mine last time, so now they are all “officially” correct.

  • @[email protected]
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    98 months ago

    My car has the correct time again! I just said fuck it and decided that IDGAF and let it keep the standard time when it was Fall back.

    I feel justified in my laziness today

    • @[email protected]
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      138 months ago

      My car as a separate clock on the dash and one on the nav screen. I keep them a hour apart and just attend to the correct one depending on the time of year. If you think this is insane, maybe think about how insane it is that we still do this dst bullshit at all and vote for politicians like those in Mexico that are willing to drop this shit. I genuinely worry that as more clocks update themselves we will become complacent and will never be free from this tyranny.

      • @Garbanzo
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        I genuinely worry that as more clocks update themselves we will become complacent and will never be free from this tyranny.

        But maybe we could reach a point where the clocks update every night so instead of shifting an hour at a time twice per year we can shift 20 seconds per day. I haven’t put much thought into this but I think it’s the next best solution after leaving the god damned clocks alone.

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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      28 months ago

      I used to be like that. Then at some point, time became a part of my job and now because of this stupid government, I spent 15 minutes stress-running around fixing everything twice a year.

    • @[email protected]
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      28 months ago

      We just switched to daylight saving, which happens during the summer. You kept it on saving time, not standard time, when you didn’t change it in the fall.

  • @[email protected]
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    88 months ago

    It’s the cooker that gets me. I end up just switching it off and on at midnight because fuck knows how you’re supposed to set it.