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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] somethingsnappy 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] somethingsnappy 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] halcyoncmdr 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] NegativeLookBehind 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I also own a g shock with the 5610 module.

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only a French would ever dare to wear such a violently vomit-hued watch 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well, it certainly isn't the kind of watch that goes unnoticed, but I like it and that is what matters in the end!

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[–] hOrni 2 points 1 month ago

I also have one of those. This is the only watch running correctly in my house.

[–] Sequentialsilence 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] lazycouchpotato 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] hOrni 9 points 1 month ago

Bold of You to assume it was ever running correctly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

weird flex but ok

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] BeMoreCareful 4 points 1 month ago

I do the same lol.

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] renzev 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] RizzRustbolt 6 points 1 month ago

*wrong time.

[–] son_named_bort 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does anyone really know what time it is?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Psythik 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

casio f91 mentioned lez go

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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..

[–] Lexam 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Bertuccio 3 points 1 month ago

Wrong time again...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Damn I forgot about my basic appliances

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