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From: suzeeq
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-10 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:34:38 -0700
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On 3/11/2024 3:20 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 3/11/2024 12:48 PM, shawn wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:48:48 -0700, suzeeq wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/11/2024 11:08 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>> suzeeq wrote:
>>>>> On 3/11/2024 8:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>>>>> Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The time change through me for a loop. I knew it was happening but
>>>>>>> wasn't sure which day it was happening or if I was gaining or
>>>>>>> losing an
>>>>>>> hour.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Spring ahead! Fall back! Since daylight is being "saved", think about
>>>>>> the time of sunset being moved back an hour from standard time.
>>>>>> That's
>>>>>> how I remember that the clock gets set ahead.
>>>>>
>>>>> But sunset moves forward in the spring.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Then I saw the clock on my stove was an hour earlier. When I was
>>>>>>> a kid I had manually change all the clocks which helped a bit,
>>>>>>> but now
>>>>>>> with almost every clock in the house automatically changing the
>>>>>>> time by
>>>>>>> the time I wake up it's like I involuntarily time traveled without
>>>>>>> knowing it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I figure it out by looking at my cellphone or the computer, then reset
>>>>> the other clocks.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And you shouldn’t have to do that. At all.
>>>>
>>> I don't have magic clocks that automatically know the time. And I don't
>>> want them.
>>
>> I had to get a new alarm clock back last year. It sets the time itself
>> including adjusting for Daylight Savings Time. Oh, and of course my
>> computer resets the time automatically. Which is enough for me. I can
>> reset my watch and microwave when I think about it.
>
> I don't wear a watch (haven't for many years, as pretty much EVERYTHING
> that includes electronics in it these days has a visible clock) and I
> just never set the clock on the microwave or electric stove in the first
> place.
>
I do set the stove, it's another reference point for me to keep track of
time when I have to be somewhere, and can't see the others.
I quit using alarm clocks a long time ago, even when I was working I
didn't start until afternoon.