How many clocks did you have to change for DST?
3I had to change 6: my alarm clock, microwave, lamp timer, car, and and two water clocks. I had 5 devices that automatically switched. It took 8-10 minutes all told. If half of 316 million people in the US spend 16 minutes a year on this as I do, 42,133,133 hours are wasted annually .
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I only had to change 3. My stove, my alarm clock and the clock in my car. I don't bother setting the microwave clock. This did just make me realize that every clock I own is plugged in and I lost power I wouldn't have a clue what time it was once my phone died.
@LadyLeela I used to call Time and Temperature, a service provided by the phone company, to get the correct time when I'd had a power outage. My alarm clock and the lamp timer both have batter backups in case of power outage, and the water clocks generate their own electricity from tap water. Only the microwave has to be reset.
@moondrake Thanks. I like the idea of the water clocks. I'll look into them.
@LadyLeela This is what I have. I find them to be a PITA to set, but they are very convenient once you get them set up. I have one on my back porch, since it doesn't electricity. http://www.amazon.com/Bedol-Water-Clock-Wink-Raspberry/dp/B00CB07CKS/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1415035175&sr=8-13&keywords=water+clock
@moondrake I love purple.
Lots change themselves now.
I did the microwave, my wrist watches, wall clock in the kitchen, which is mostly decorative now. Oh, yeah, one in the bathroom.
Oh, the hardest one, the heat. One thermostat is mechanical and easy. The other one is digital and a total pia.
Does anyone know how to reset the dog and cat? They are begging for meals at the wrong time.
Somehow they don't have a problem with spring ahead.
@smilingjack YES! My dog is famous for asking for supper at 8pm on the dot. So now it's 7. I make him wait till 7:15 this week, and push it 15 minutes each week till we are back at 8. He is actually quite surprised by "spring forward". He's happy to eat but looks at me like I've lost my mind when I feed him "early".
@smilingjack I feel your pain. I have my cat trained to let me sleep in on the weekends. Yesterday, no dice, she was driving me crazy at 6am.
@LadyLeela Now imagine that you run a dairy farm and how you explain the schedule change to a herd of cows.
@rockblossom no, thank you!
@rockblossom Wait, farmers really do change schedules with the clock? I know Daylight Saving Time has always been attributed to farmers, but I kinda figured farmers really got up with the sun regardless of what time the clock says it is.
@jqubed The problem is that dairy and egg farms are at the mercy of the processing center schedules, so they have to deliver on time, regardless of when the sun comes up. The small dairy farm nearby keeps the milking on the cow's schedule and just holds the milk an extra hour, then gradually move it a few minutes later each day until they make up the hour. I don't know how the big dairies handle it. I don't know any farmers who love DST.
@rockblossom You have dairy cows??? Can I milk one??? I grew up walking distance from the last working farm in NYC. It was a dairy. The cows never left the barn. As a kid I would visit them every day. I really NEED to milk a cow before I die. It is #1 on my bucket list.
@smilingjack I milked cows when I was a wee lass, and it was definitely not fun. I live near a dairy farm but don't work there. Even the small dairies use milking machines these days, and I doubt the cows would appreciate any attempt to milk by hand (especially cold ones)! You could always milk a goat. I think a few people on this board could direct you to a goat farm.
@rockblossom Goat farm? Where?
@rockblossom Back in the early 60's, the guys (it was always teenage boys) would start the milking by hand and then put the milking machine on the cow. There must have been over a hundred cows in that barn. I would settle for a goat!
@LadyLeela Who ever goes to the bathroom after 4am kicks the cat out of the bedroom. He doesn't eat till after 6am, but he'll try to wake us up any time after 4am. On the weekend he eats at 8 or 9.
10 devices (and counting) here. I say and counting because I'm sure there's one or two that are still wrong. I have a lot of dumb devices, apparently. :P
I didn't have to change any. Everything auto changed except the kitchen timer/clock and that one never got changed when daylight savings started since we only ever use it as a timer.
@metaphore I'm in this boat. Although I probably should have more clocks around the house as I always think something only takes me X time and it usually in 2X.
I hadn't really thought about it until I saw this post, but let's count:
1 - Car
2 - Watch
3 - Microwave
4 - VCR (really!)
5 - Stereo receiver
6 - Alarm clock
7 - Analog clock in bathroom
8 - Programmable thermostat
9 - Analog clock in living room (actually haven't changed this one yet, but noticed this morning it was wrong. I'll get it... eventually!)
Lets see...
1 - My Truck
2- My wife's car
3- My wife's alarm clock (mine changed automatically)
4- Oven
5- Microwave
6- Keurig
7- Thermostat
8- Analog clock on entertainment center
9- Lamp timer for my 4 year old's nightstand (keeps it on for an hour after he goes to bed)
I think that's all of them. My wife changed her own watch time, but she has trouble figuring out other clocks for some reason.. haha.
Microwave, stove, Keurig. And the nightstand clock just has a DST toggle I have to switch. Not so bad.
Car, wall clock, alarm clock, stove, and microwave were set yesterday.
Walking up to my office, I looked at my watch and said "OH CRAP, I'M ...forgot to change my watch. heh"
@The_Baron The watch thing pretty much happened to me just now. I thought "this day is going by a little slow" about an hour ago then I just looked at my watch and thought "WHOA IT'S 4 ALREADY, TIME FLIES...oh"
@JonT I bought a solar atomic G-Shock watch this year. It calibrates every night and it's good until the rechargeable battery finally kicks, which many say has taken at least 10 years. I went with the stainless steel as I wanted something nicer than the normal G-Shock rubbery bands. I swear I've gotten more compliments on this than my Tag Heuer. http://www.amazon.com/Casio-MTGM900DA-8-G-Shock-Stainless-Digital/dp/B0094BKASS
So far, just the one in my truck.
The ones I didn't do:
1. Stove - my mother gave me her not-so-old one as an upgrade. She didn't tell me that the display was on the fritz and now it doesn't work at all. That's really fun when you can't tell if the oven is on or be entirely sure what temperature you entered on the electronic keypad that has no tactile feedback.
2. Any and all analog clocks in the house - The batteries have long since died and no one has noticed.
3. The alarm clocks in my bedroom - Technically I didn't need to change these because I rearranged the furniture on Saturday and I haven't plugged mine back in.
4. Microwave - It always reads (approximately) "00:27" because I intentionally overshoot on nuke times and just pop the door open to stir or remove. Efficiency of movement, FTW. Why bother setting the clock, ever?
5. My watch - the leather band irritates my skin. I haven't worn it in over a year and I've been too lazy to bring it somewhere to have a metal band installed and sized. it's "rose gold" colored and I can't imagine finding a band that would match well.
@JerseyFrank "Why bother setting the clock, ever?" Because I don't wear a watch and it's the only clock in the kitchen.
@moondrake Have fun pressing buttons more buttons to reheat leftovers. Me? I'm sticking to the plan. :)
This is embarrassing.
The very first one I went to set was the Sony speaker dock I got in the Fuku. I remembered there was something about daylight saving time. I forgot if it was a button or what. Found the instructions, then found the daylight saving time section and saw that the clock just knows. Then I looked more closely at the clock and saw that it had the right time. Doh.
The other alarm clocks weren't so smart.
4 appliances in our kitchen have clocks, only one of them has a DST button.
The water softener has a clock.
The thermostats have clocks.
My watch.
My electronic timers have DST buttons.
Our land line answering machine has a clock.
Thankfully, all of the networked devices, computers, phones, tablets, etc... know the DST rules.
Complete:
Car
Wristwatch
To do:
Stove
Microwave
Sony speaker dock
The clocks I use the most do it themselves.
@JonT See above, the sony speaker dock should change it automagically (mine did, too).
@jsh139 Yes! Ticked something off the list without even having to do anything.
@JonT It's the little things...
I only needed to change my car. My microwave stays unplugged and my stove + thermostat are too old to have digital displays.
Auto change:
Cell phones
Smart watch connected to one of my cell phones
Bedroom clock that syncs to WWVB
Hasn't yet changed;
Fob watch that's supposed to sync with WWVB, but hasn't been able to yet.
Manual change:
Clock on fireplace mantel: old time wind-up
Other clock on mantel: BCD clock
Thermostat
Clock in bathroom
Clock in truck
Clock in car
Other watch
Microwave
Phone answering machines
Really old 486DX4-100 computer running DOS 6.20 and WFW 3.11
Kitchen clock: barbershop mirror clock, which is a complete mirror image of a regular clock, including the hands running counter-clockwise
Irrigation controller
Stove clock: old enough to be an analog clock
Whew!
Did my car yesterday. Haven't done the oven yet but will eventually. I don't bother changing the light timers. The computers & phones change automagically.
Husband and my alarm clocks. Both are supposed to change automatically, neither do. After messing with it for a few minutes, I discovered if I just change it from est to cst it worked.
microwave
oven
kitchen wall clock
dining room clock
spare bedroom clock
office clock
living room clock
car
the phones and PC did it on their own
I never set the Keurig because I turn it off when I'm not using it
None, I haven't done them since the main ones are the tablet and the computer. don't bother with the microwave or the rice cooker they have never been right and it's too easy to trip their breaker when I go for it it will only be 5
two the bedroom
one in the kitchen
and two cars that I can't remember how to set
None. I live in Arizona where we don't screw with that goofy shit.
@ruouttaurmind I was wondering when an Arizonan would chime in. :)
I changed the stove and micro. The rest I never switched to DST -- I just adjusted in my brain all summer -- so I didn't have to change them back.
Story goes, my great uncle thought DST was the work of the devil and refused to change time. Other people had to adjust to him accordingly. Of course that was a long long time ago in small rural community, so it worked out ok for him. I think he had the right idea though.
I had to Change... the Digital and analogue clocks in my car, and My 3 alarm Clocks. yes. 3 alarm clocks. and the only alarm i actually set? on my cell phone....
everything else, either someone else beat me to it, or it changed itself, including my wristwatch (connects to the NIST signal)
I only had to change the one in my car for myself. Then I went to my grandma's house and changed 9 total clocks including the microwave and stove plus all the smoke detectors' batteries.
@Kleineleh you're a good grandkid :)
I discovered on my way in to work this morning that I never actually changed the clock in my car