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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-10 (Sunday)
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On 3/11/2024 12:48 PM, shawn wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:48:48 -0700, suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/11/2024 11:08 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com> wrote:
>>>> On 3/11/2024 8:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>>>> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> 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've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.