Spyke
feddit.uk

The one that caught me out today was my smart watch. Automatic...right?

Only if it's connected to my phone apparently. 🙄

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Woo 6 months of the car clock being right!

The trick is that there's always one clock you forget about until it catches you out. I've sorted the microwave, given up on the cooker and... now where is it?

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I'd just set all the clocks I don't care about to be very wrong so that I know to ignore them

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lazysoci.al

I don't even do that so i admire your conscientiousness. If it's not a smart device or the thermostat it stays at the wrong time

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Sylvartasreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Never bothered with the microwave. Damn thing will be 257 minutes out of sync by the end of the week somehow

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Clocks went forward today and I was wondering why I slept so late. Then I remembered

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Car clock? I just pressed the HH button once.

Cooker? Cycle through options until a clock item appears, then hold the middle button until it goes up by 1 hour.

Yes, I do have an engineering degree, how did you know?

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feddit.uk

Both my cooker and car are incredibly simple. A couple of buttons to add an hour.

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Diddlydeereply
feddit.uk

Cooker has a clock button then a plus one button. Car has a mode button then plus one.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Praise Toyota!

*buttons next to clock marked M and H*

*Press H once*

This comment was more effort.

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groetreply
feddit.org

marked M and H

M -> More: add one hour to the clock

H -> Higher: add one hour to the clock

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yeah I can't think of any other two words starting with M and H in relation to clocks

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My Toyota: click H button, done. My mom's Suzuki: two different clocks, not synced, no option or idea on how to change either

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My cooker has a button with a picture of a clock underneath it. When I press it nothing happens, when I hold it nothing happens. The button does not appear to do anything.

To change the time on my oven you have to press a button with a picture of a key on it, wait for a red light to show up, then press the up and down keys to move left and right and the plus and minus keys to increase and decrease time. The bottom with the picture of the clock on it does not appear to be involved in the process at all.

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sh.itjust.works

my watch is correct for the main clock, but the little '2nd timezone' one is off by like 5 minutes. If have to rotate a full 24 hours to fix it and I don't have a need for a 2nd timezone, so it's just gonna be incorrect till I fix it next daylight savings time lol

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InFerNoreply
lemmy.ml

You're wearing a right handed clock on the wrong side. The crown should be on the side of your free hand so you can use it easily.

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Obireply
sopuli.xyz

But then it would be upside down?..

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lemmy.world

I think most people just have a defeatist attitude about changing clocks and never even try. I do find myself constantly fixing peoples clocks when I visit them. Almost none of them are hard or obscure.... like literally 95% of the time, there is a button labeled clock, 4% of the time there is an options menu, with an entry for clock. The other 1% can for sure be a bit more crazy... but for that 1% to be making people feel like they shouldn't even try to change clocks, not even looking to see if there is a clearly labeled clock button. There is something more going on.

I'm not some clock genius... and kids generally have no problem setting the clocks on stuff...so at some point it was learned behaviour that clocks are impossible to set... but learned how?

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lemmy.ca

The trick for clocks in a lot of cars is you need to turn off the radio to do it. Many of the buttons are dual use they will change settings on the radio if it's on.

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We had a 1979 Oldsmobile Delta 88 way back when. It had a very clever clock. Whenever you moved it forward, it figured that it had been running slow, so it would run a little bit faster.

So, very cool, eventually the clock would get more and more accurate overtime.

Except...DST. A one hour adjustment. It would just be getting back to accurate 6 months later. Rinse and repeat....

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