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Dumbass just has it upside down it’s actually just LL:6

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Ah that make sense . These karma whores i tell ya.

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That’s why you should always include a banana in the picture. Then we can tell if the clock is right side up in relation to the banana.

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Banana for orientation

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In was looking for a small space heater for the bathroom because it gets so cold in the morning. There was one that was a plug in into the outlet kinda like a night light, and had a temperature display. There was a one star review along the lines of

This thing is garbage! It just keeps saying nonsense like 9L! Needs better instructions!

I flipped the photo upside down and…

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LL:6 already! I’m late for my harmonica recital!

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Did you try setting it to Wumbo?

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El El Seis?! He’s HERE?!

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11037

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8008135

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At this time of year

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The thermometer Celsius sign and the precipitation percentage sign indicate that this is in fact the correct orientation

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You mean

%65

And

)•L1

Both seem like perfectly cromulant measurements to me.

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Maybe it’s in Spanish mode.

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I think that was sarcasm.

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You Americans with your imperial system. 9:77 o’clock is 10:17 in metric. /s

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I see the s, but you have it backwards. 9:77 is clearly metric time, with 100 minutes per hour…

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Centons

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ackshually … the French really tried something like that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

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IT would be simpler if this catched on. Why it didn’t?

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OP said Kmart, Kmart is dead in the USA, so the buyer is probably Australian or New Zealander.

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or it’s a tweet from 10+ years ago

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Which makes waaaaaay more sense as everyone uses their phone for alarms now rather than a fucking clock lmao

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I don’t think Twitter was founded by the time Kmart left the big cities around 20 years ago.

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Also the clock says it’s 17 degrees Celsius, although to be fair I think it’s established that the clock is unreliable.

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I assume the 59% is humidity? So they took the time to make the clock indicate humidity but couldn’t make it indicate time.

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A great man once said Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. … so why not temperature too?

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Kmart isn’t completely dead in the US. There are two in the states, three in the US Virgin Islands, and one in Guam

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Clearly it’s set to metric time

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That’s 9.7 kiloseconds for my metric friends

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Decimal time is the representation of the time of day using units which are decimally related. This term is often used specifically to refer to the French Republican calendar time system used in France from 1794 to 1800, during the French Revolution, which divided the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds (100000 decimal seconds per day), as opposed to the more familiar standard time, which divides the day into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds (86400 SI seconds per day).

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

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That sounds like a better way to me. 🤔

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What are the laws in the US regarding this? In Germany, this clock is clearly defective and must be repaired or replaced or refunded by the vendor at no additional charge.

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In most places you can return it back for any reason and without one, if you still have a receipt.

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At least within a relatively short time period, like 30 or 90 days.

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But how do you measure time if the clock is broken?

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I don’t know if there are laws about it but most places will let you return for store credit at least.

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You could definitely get it repaired/replaced by the manufacturer

But, would you? You can probably return it to where you bought it, but that’s at least 10 mins of your life.

You could also throw it in the trash… That takes 0 minutes. That’s what they hope you’ll do, and so every other option is made possible, but frustrating

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Please recycle electronics. Thanks!

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How? I recycle e-waste personally, because I find disassembling it relaxing.

What is a normal person meant to do? I’ve been asked and I don’t know what to tell them

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That clock obviously runs on military time. Easy mistake to make.

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