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Elevators in the office building where I work have screens that run ads, but also have time and date in the corner. It resets every couple of days, so basically every day is in January 1970
I always unplug my microwave because it’s old and makes a soft humming noise. Obviously I don’t bother to set the clock every time, so when it is plugged it usually shows --:–. However occasionally it indicates 12:00 instead, and I have no idea why it is sometimes different…
Ah, a fellow lastthursdayism believer
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?
Only that one teacher who cared if you walked in one second late but would then keep the whole class after the bell because they think they’re above not only all the kids but all the other teachers as well.
If so, I can’t imagine why
Yeah, Atomic Clocks can measure time with great precision as the radioactive decay of elements is extremely consistent.
Hope I’m not alone in this - Appliances should only have relative timers.
It only needs to know how to run a program for 30 min, or activate with a delayed start in 5h. Clock time is meaningless for an oven.Appliance companies, are you listening? Hint: they’re not, circuitry design and manufacture has been outsourced so much they probably don’t even know where they get it from.
Yeah — stop making me reset the god damn oven, microwave, and coffee maker every time the power flickers. At the very least my coffee maker has a small battery in it that seems to endure shorter outages, but if manufacturers aren’t willing to have a back up battery for this, then they should take out the god damn clock altogether. It’s mostly pointless— especially these days. My microwave is so tedious too — it asks the day, month, and year. Why does my microwave need to know the fucking date? It actually serves no purpose.
@flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz , time to fight @yesman@lemmy.world
So many timers, so little time.
I don’t even notice all the little clocks. I actually like clocks a lot, and I check them a lot, but not the ones in these appliances. I usually don’t notice when they run fast or when we go in or out of DLS.
Sometimes my friend fixes mine when he’s here. I appreciate it. It bothers him. I don’t care about any of them except the auto feeder for the cats.
Power cut off at my house while I was at work night before last. Got the notification of restoration bout an hour before quitting time
We gotta love the little blessings.
Me: this is so dumb
Also me: busts out laughing
We have a constellation of satellites constantly broadcasting the most accurate time humans can measure and it’s crazy every device doesn’t have an antenna to pick this up and set the time.
Jokes on you, my oven has WiFi.
Some kid in Hoboken is gonna set your house on fire with it.
Good thing you can only turn it on remotely under certain conditions
So uh, what conditions. Like exactly? It’s for my english class.
None of my kitchen equipment has any sort of a clock on them.
Timers, yes. Clocks, no.
Yeah stopped bothering with setting up the hour manually for these things… Every rainy or windy season my electricity is quite erratic.
TBH I never set them. Whats the point?
