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From: suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-10 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:52:24 -0700
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On 3/11/2024 5:53 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 3/11/2024 5:34 PM, suzeeq wrote:
>> 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 <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 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 can't get out of line of sight of a clock anymore.  Sitting here at my 
> desk there are *counts* three different "clocks" in line of sight.  The 
> only place in my apartment where there isn't a visible clock is in the 
> bathtub and that's only if I pull the curtain closed.

You have a lot more than I do. At my computer, I can check it, or scoot 
my chair back to look at the video player, but they're not quite line of 
sight. I have to turn around to look at the stove, but it's too far away 
to actually read.