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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-10 (Sunday)
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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.

> I quit using alarm clocks a long time ago, even when I was working I 
> didn't start until afternoon.

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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.