My doctor is younger than me, and she wouldn't shut up about needing to change the clocks.
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There was a period of time when some devices did the change automatically, while others needed you to manually do it. Given that you could be late for something important, it makes sense to check whether your devices are up to date. For example, my phone will change it on its own, but my fitness tracker needs to sync with my phone to do it, so it would be easy to forget and find myself running to a late appointment.
For older people it was seen as friendly and polite to remind others to change their clocks for daylight savings time. Alot of them probably dont have phones. I grew up pre-internet and the world was a much better place.
That feeling is nostalgia for a time when Reagan condemned many to die for loving the wrong people, DND was satanism, peter thiel's and musk's parents were busy apartheiding black workers to death.
The feeling will pass.
You know you are not responsible for everything that happens the moment you are born. It is a ridiculous stance honestly.
You are not, and nobody said you were...but woof, way to tell us where your insecurities lie lol.
However when you say you grew up in the pre internet world and it was a much better place, that is unfortunately called "wrong" and I was correcting you.
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This type of all or nothing rhetoric is bs. It's ok to be nostalgic for a time that was better in some ways while rejecting the ways that it wasn't. The fact is, the rise of the internet has made life a lot more complicated and brought new problems even as some have been solved.
Yes, I agree, saying pre-internet times were somehow absolutely better is indeed bs.
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Yay! Cherry-picking to shit on the past is fun!
Why do you find apartheid fun?
See I can make a bad faith response just like you.
My car has two clocks and one automatically changes (I assume CarPlay) and the other has a setting that turn dst on or off.
My car clock needs moving still, and it's slower because it's analogue for some reason
Even Doc Brown had to change the clock in his car.
It's probably not exactly analog, it's probably still quartz crystal digital, even if it displays as an analog clock with hands.
Pictures speak a thousand words...
Its 40C outside (over 110F) so im not going to take a photo. It has physical hands, although i don't know if that means anything.
If you truly care to find out, the car is a Nissan Skyline 370 GT.
May I ask year model?
I'm almost certain that even with mechanical clock hands, it's still almost certainly timed by a quartz crystal these days, and even for the past 30+ years.
The quartz crystal is usually supposed to 'tick' at a rate of 32,768 cycles per second, but not all quartz crystal timers are made to perfect timing.
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My car's clock needs manual resetting, so does my old radio alarm that turns on NPR in the morning. Coffeemaker, microwave, and oven all have clocks, and the wall clock of course. Most of these, I never use as a precise time reference, because they run slow or fast. They're more for timing food or laundry, or counting the seconds while I grind coffee.... Except one day I will glance and think I have a lot more time than I really do, so best to make sure they are at least close to correct.
Always remember: those run fast or slow because the company that made it was super cheap. Devices hooked to 120vac have a stable time reference.
I can't afford a more expensive minivan just to keep the clock from gaining time. It already cost way too much because it's wheelchair modified. Same for the appliance clocks, which are only there so the timer will function.
I should say the items that plug into a wall outlet. Your car time won't be stable unless it has its own gps or cell antenna.
I'm actually glad I didn't notice to change my mechanical watch, it helped me understand which way the time shifted - even after a day of post-incident investigation and report writing where I had to convert PST to UTC and back..
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