(Power flashes for a fraction of a fraction of a second)
Appliances:
Its 12:00
Always has been!
(Also the universe was created last thursday. Have fun!)
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
Casual ads inside an elevator in an office building? This is the true dystopian future
I’d rather take the stairs (for up to ~10 floors)
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…
My guess is that there’s a capacitor in there somewhere. The capacitor stores enough charge to keep the time for short periods (like a power flicker). But it’s unreliable for longer periods of time (beyond a few minutes) and will cause clock drift.
So, when the power goes out for a medium length of time, the microwave resets to 12:00 to indicate that you need to set the time again
However, if the microwave is left unplugged for an extended period of time (a few days to weeks), the capacitor is fully drained. My guess is that this causes the time to be set to --:–
Why it would be designed like that? No idea
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Some physicists think they do. I have heard two different ideas though both summarise to "time is a side effect of the universe operating
I’m pretty sure that current theory has only one time dimension and some number of space ones
Here ya go: https://time.gov/
Idk maybe, just maybe. Add a cheap AF coin battery like for example motherboards to keep the internal clock alive.
Epic trick dear manufacturers. Well maybe it will cost them 0.05€ more per device… That means less Ferraris for the CEOs so idk about that.
Wrong:
- Pizza-time
- Lazy-time
- Caffeine-addiction-time
