I haven’t used a clock in years that I need to manually reset. Older people don’t seem to realize clocks on phones and other devices reset automatically.

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My phone may change the time automatically, but my brain doesn’t 😐

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Had to reset the clock on my stove, microwave, coffee maker, and cars.

It’s no where near obsolete as you seem to imply.

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Stove, microwave, and two battery-operated dial clocks here. I didn’t go anywhere today, so I’ll find out in the morning if the car needs it. I honestly don’t remember. The Rice cooker just cycled back to correct. :-)

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Here in germany i think there’s a radio signal being transmitted on a dedicated frequency that does nothing but distribute the current time information to digital devices. It’s really useful!

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It’s everywhere, but not all devices have the radio

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That’s existed since at least the 60’s, maybe even earlier.

And electric clocks used to get their timing from the frequency of the electrical system, and power companies would compensate for any daily variations by changing the frequency over night so any timing systems would be back in sync.

Commercial buildings often used these kinds of clocks.

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Are you sure you’re talking about the same thing as me? Sounds like devices use the 50/60 Hz grid frequency instead of an internal resonator/frequency generator to count forward the seconds. But it doesn’t tell the device “what time is it now” when you first switch it on.

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Huh. That does sound pretty damn useful.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF77

Id never even heard of it in Canada.

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don’t worry. i got chu.

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Canada had that up to last year.

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Most of us don’t bother with that. The only clock I manually change is the one on my car. The other appliances are always blinking 00:00 from whenever the last power outage was.

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I will say that it’s useful having an always visible clock in the kitchen when cooking. For me that’s the microwave.

Technically it doesn’t need to be accurate, though, because it’s for time differences (boil for 10 minutes, etc)

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My stove did need setting, but my 84 yo father in law’s car did set itself.

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Mostly all of those too, except my cars. My cars grab their time info from GPS and update automatically. Have for the past few cars I’ve had, but they’ve all been German.

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You don’t have a car, oven, or microwave that isn’t internet connected?

This is the worst timeline

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Some devices doesn’t need internet.

If they can count the days of the years, its possible the DST fuction is already built in.

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Why would you want a stove that knows the year, month, or date? Like seriously, just because something can have a feature doesn’t mean it must have it! Day of week? … possibly (but weird). Anything past that is just dumb.

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If the device doesn’t have Internet access I don’t want it to have DST built in. Time changes can be dependent on changes in your government. We’ve already had its start date changed years ago. Recently there’s even been some vocal officials talking about ending it entirely.

EDIT: typo

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My oven doesnt have a clock. And dont rely on my car for the time. It cant even keep accurate time anyway.

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Older people don’t seem to realize clocks on phones and other devices reset automatically.

That’s not it.

In times before there were things like cell phones and auto updating clocks, people would use the upcoming change as a conversational item to interact with each other socially about.

Kind of like how people sometimes talk about the upcoming weather.

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I remember back when clocks were essentially sticks in the ground, you had to manually drag the sun across the sky by a few degrees to change the time. Those were the days, twice a year.

pepperidge farm remembers

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Man the year we learned how to change the speed of Earth’s rotation temporarily was a huge innovation for that feat.

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