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Natasha 
🇪🇺A guide to changing clocks this weekend ⌚
Frank@Natasha_Jay It's the Where Is My Oven Instruction Manual So I can Figure Out the Clock time again!
sahqon@vwdasher @Natasha_Jay I need mum for the oven. Idk why but she knows how to set the clock on it. She needs help finding the X button on a browser to turn it off, but she sets the damned oven clock in under ten seconds and I can't for the life of me replicate that.
Car radio will rearrange itself when coming into contact with a phone. Which will happen about right before it needs to be set back to original, because I don't usually turn the electronics on in it...
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@Natasha_Jay I usually leave the car on summer time for the year. Trouble is, occasionally it goes to the garage in winter and they reset the clock.
FanCityKnits 🇺🇦🧶This, I hate it.
It yearly inspection is in January, so it happens every year.
Maybe I should just leave it on winter time? It's just that summer time is 7 month so it makes more sense to leave it at that.
@FanCityKnits @Natasha_Jay The big problem is that I usually leave it on summer time, so I'm used to where I should be at each hour on our regular winter trip, so I get very confused if the garage has reset the clock so it looks like we're in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Sheddi@Natasha_Jay seems I'm not the only one who leaves the car on UTC!
Wolf_BaginskiLeaving things on GPS time doesn't confuse the septics enough — leap-seconds are useful.
Velocipede Rider@Natasha_Jay For the oven I find cutting the power to your entire kitchen at 11:59 and restoring it at exactly 12:00 works great.
FediThing 
How are you doing with your watch collection? 😬
Velocipede Rider (@[email protected])
Holy shit I'm going to be busy tomorrow. Those who follow me closely can likely guess why.
🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳
@duckwhistle @Natasha_Jay Many have more than one appliance with a clock. 😉
@ruari @Natasha_Jay
fair enough. I have a clock on my microwave but it you don't set it, it will flash 00:00 forever and not let you use it, so I didn't think about cutting power to anytging else.
fair enough. I have a clock on my microwave but it you don't set it, it will flash 00:00 forever and not let you use it, so I didn't think about cutting power to anytging else.
@duckwhistle @Natasha_Jay Yes this is very appliance specific. Some flash for a while and then default to 12:00 only after one or five minutes, others set immediately and some (I guess like yours) never set unless manually set. However there are certainly enough that this trick works for many. I did it for years.
These days the only things in our kitchen with clocks are the oven and micro and after a refurb the models we have are actually very easy to set, so I do indeed set them manually.
Complexity of systems 🏳️⚧️@Natasha_Jay Fun fact in some locations your car radio might set its own clock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Data_System#:~:text=Can%20synchronize%20a%20clock%20in%20the%20receiver
(note that while it is supported by the RDS spec I've never personally seen a radio station that actually bothers to broadcast RDS time)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Data_System#:~:text=Can%20synchronize%20a%20clock%20in%20the%20receiver
(note that while it is supported by the RDS spec I've never personally seen a radio station that actually bothers to broadcast RDS time)
Andy Gates@Natasha_Jay Old school bike computers: where are those damn manuals, this is HIGH STAKES in case I wipe the odometer..!
Sarah W@Natasha_Jay
I have an electric car to which I connect my phone everyday so I can listen to music, radio or GPS etc.
It still doesn't change the car clock.
I have an electric car to which I connect my phone everyday so I can listen to music, radio or GPS etc.
It still doesn't change the car clock.
Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑@Natasha_Jay Note: "Oven" also applies to the micro wave variant.
Cadbury MooseI used to have to go next door and change the time on their central heating programmer. (It doesn't actually _need_ a Sysprog to do that, but elderly (and non-technical) neighbours...) 3:O)>
🟥 Eveline Sulman 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦@Natasha_Jay car clock: just wait six months! We do that.
Sophie Schmieg@Natasha_Jay oven is: don't bother, it will always show the time since last fuse blown/power fluctuation anyways.
schuelermine@Natasha_Jay what would moving the sundial to the side do?
alex helvetica@Natasha_Jay a friend today realised their clock in their car was off by an hour, so they updated the clock to DST. The thing is, we go back to regular time next weekend, essentially ensuring the car will only have the correct time on the clock for 7.5 days in the year since DST started.
I honestly love that. It's chaotic good energy. Taking 6 months to notice a problem that has minor to no implications, and fixing it then and there even though the problem would have resolved itself in just over a week
🇪🇺 Paul Schoonhoven 🍋🍉@Natasha_Jay @regendans my old car 'radio' is only used as amplifier. Connected via modern bluetooth 'mouse' to my smartphone for internet music. 😇
Killa Koala@Natasha_Jay My car has two separate clocks, one on the central touch screen (relatively easy to change aside from the crappy and unresponsive "touch" screen) and another on the driver's dash display which has to be updated via a very obscure and complex menu and steering column buttons process that I have to look up in the manual every six months. 😞 It makes changing the clock on my microwave look simple in comparison. 😡
My previous car had no clock, I preferred that as DST was no problem and I wear a watch.
xs4me2
Ji-eun Choi@Natasha_Jay wait...thats..thi.....fuuuuuuck.... thats gonna be 6 months of people whining about it.
(I do love the little dutch phrase to remind people if it goes back or foreward an hour.)
🍻 Alexander 🇪🇺@Natasha_Jay luckily I do have a masters in Electronics, so I'll be fine.
Apart from the car radio. No one understands those.
Dźwiedziu@Natasha_Jay
My first car was French, and setting the clock was weird. You do nothing to advance from hours to minutes.
Now I have another French car, where changing the time is done by navigating trough the radio menu with up/down buttons and changing the time is left/right. BOTH IN BOTH DIRECTIONS! IN 2012! :🤯
RejZoR@Natasha_Jay My dumb car stereo has DST option that I flip and it changes the time (or I could just change it manually as it's super easy to change). The oven is also very easy to setup, made by Electrolux. Koreans and Swedes know how to make things simple from my experience.
Jan@Natasha_Jay The sundial shows the correct time.
Juho MäntysaloThat we have managed to create a world where sundial shows the wrong time should really make us think about how we've made things needlessly complicated.
Jfrench@Natasha_Jay my thermostat gets the time by radio signal. So it should change automatically.
And it does
Only it's one hour out and when the clocks change it stays one hour out.
Raymond Russell@Natasha_Jay
This is not even funny, my dad has already recruited me to change the time on a digital wall clock and his digital watch. Both have overly elaborate instructions for doing such a simple task. There is also the possibility that he may not have the instructions for both devices.
This is not even funny, my dad has already recruited me to change the time on a digital wall clock and his digital watch. Both have overly elaborate instructions for doing such a simple task. There is also the possibility that he may not have the instructions for both devices.
InnœRa@Natasha_Jay Hahah! Hilarious but true!
Eorlingur@Natasha_Jay Thanks to my Masters degree my oven truly runs like a clock!
aboutgrau@Natasha_Jay pretty accurate 😂
akko 
@Natasha_Jay i want a sundial
carstenraddatz@Natasha_Jay finally no VCR in that infographic :))
OldGeek@Natasha_Jay my car radio has a daylight savings toggle. Of course every six months I forget this and manually change the time. Then remember so have to change the time and then the toggle.
ash 
@Natasha_Jay I hear unplugging things to reset them to midnight strategically also works sometimes
Moos-a-dee 🫎@Natasha_Jay I initially moved my car's time to 30 minutes in between daylight savings / standard time and thought it was funny, but then it really messed with my anxiety while driving to appointments. 😅
EtherTide@Natasha_Jay For some reason, the clock in my dad's car is always 1 hour wrong. You can set it to the right time, but a couple of days later it's wrong again. It adjusts itself when daylight savings come so that it remains a consistent 1-hour ahead, so it's not even a "broken clocks are right twice a day" scenario.
Kevin Karhan 
@Natasha_Jay I think #DaylightSavingsTime needs to be abolished and banned!
Stoneface Vimes@Natasha_Jay I have my own technique for the oven. I just leave it flashing 88:88 all the time.
🐜@Natasha_Jay but i just changed the times 3 wks ago
Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle@Natasha_Jay I swear I once worked to an org with ~ 500 people, a ~10 people IT dept, and some kind of NTP setup, and the Windows computers did not adjust to daylight savings time
Dieter Fröhling@Natasha_Jay Yup. six digital cameras, one car, one bicycle, one microwave one oven.
Clocks are automatic, mobile phones also.
oops some calculators... Big chore every time...
Clocks are automatic, mobile phones also.
oops some calculators... Big chore every time...
neald@Natasha_Jay my car clock has been wrong for six months. I'll have to remember to stop manually subtracting an hour come tomorrow
Trinsec@Natasha_Jay I have long since given up on the oven! I don't use it to watch time with, but I use the clock still for relative time. 'It's done in 10 mins. What does this clock say.. 15:13? Ok when it shows 15:23 I need to turn it off.' (But only for short times where I'm still in the kitchen and only for one thing. If there's more I have a fantastic multi-timer app on my phone.)
Cindy Vandermeulen
Guillotine Jones, Flâneur@Natasha_Jay
Note to US-ians: Natasha's helpful infographic is addressed to people outside the US.
You have already performed one of the listed procedures and don't need to do anything else.
Note to US-ians: Natasha's helpful infographic is addressed to people outside the US.
You have already performed one of the listed procedures and don't need to do anything else.
Sarah Sammis@Natasha_Jay My car radio is the easiest one to change of those that need to change. Hit the + to go up an hour. Or hit the - to go down and hour.
Garrulous Ambivert #SNP1SGP2@Natasha_Jay Aye, that brings back memories. At the 1st clock-change after moving in to this house, I spent an unreasonable amount of time scouring the paperwork that I had for the new boiler I'd had installed.
Was getting really, really annoyed when I switched to searching online (expecting there was an app I probably needed to install) & within the 1st few results saw one by the manufacturer stating I had a too smart by far connected boiler that changed times automagically 🤦♂️
Was getting really, really annoyed when I switched to searching online (expecting there was an app I probably needed to install) & within the 1st few results saw one by the manufacturer stating I had a too smart by far connected boiler that changed times automagically 🤦♂️
Sebastian "spaetz" Spaeth@Natasha_Jay so true!!! 😅
tTh@Natasha_Jay : And a #timelapse of the real thing -> https://tube.interhacker.space/w/78z4TiurGKFyrmabAKZZxy
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Isu 🐲@Natasha_Jay Actually, you will have to wait seven months, not six.
(April, May, June, July, August, September, October = 7 months)
(Yes, "standard time" is only 5 months a year.)