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Apr 16, 2019 16:16:56   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
I have several analog wall clocks, and twice a year, I have to get up on a stool, change the time by one hour, and play the game of trying to get the clock back onto the hook n the wall. A friend said he has atomic clocks, and they set themselves. Brilliant! I bought three atomic wall clocks.

Unfortunately, they run on batteries, so whether they set the time themselves or not, I still have to climb up there and replace the batteries. Buying those clocks accomplished nothing.

As a matter of fact, I bet they use more battery searching for the signal from Colorado, or wherever. Oh, and it took one clock almost a week to get the time right after DST ended.

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Apr 16, 2019 16:26:58   #
DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
 
jerryc41 wrote:
I have several analog wall clocks, and twice a year, I have to get up on a stool, change the time by one hour, and play the game of trying to get the clock back onto the hook n the wall. A friend said he has atomic clocks, and they set themselves. Brilliant! I bought three atomic wall clocks.

Unfortunately, they run on batteries, so whether they set the time themselves or not, I still have to climb up there and replace the batteries. Buying those clocks accomplished nothing.

As a matter of fact, I bet they use more battery searching for the signal from Colorado, or wherever. Oh, and it took one clock almost a week to get the time right after DST ended.
I have several analog wall clocks, and twice a yea... (show quote)


Get a clock with an internet connection.

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Apr 16, 2019 17:02:09   #
John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN
 
At time.gov you can view a the official time from the Colorado observatory. Set your clocks and watches and be in sync with our ships of war. Call it confort time.

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Apr 17, 2019 07:05:11   #
cdayton
 
I have a Casio G-Shock wristwatch - solar powered with radio for setting ds time. Now if my wall clocks were as smart.

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Apr 17, 2019 08:48:45   #
ad9mac
 
The worst part is having to stay up 'til 2 AM to change them. Why couldn't they make it around 9 PM.? ;-)

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Apr 17, 2019 09:08:20   #
Indi Loc: L. I., NY, Palm Beach Cty when it's cold.
 
Just look at your cell phone.

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Apr 17, 2019 09:17:02   #
bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY
 
WE have one of those auto setting clocks, AC powered, very easy, only problem it gets one minute faster each year, 30 seconds each time the time changes, and no way to reset it, now have to remember it's 12 min fast.

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Apr 17, 2019 09:17:58   #
fetzler Loc: North West PA
 
I have an atomic analog clock. The batteries last many years. Most of the time it changes just fine for DST. If necessary placing it close to a west window. I like my digital atomic clocks the work a bit more smoothly for time adjustments as the hands to not have to move around. All atomic clocks automatically adjust for DST near 2AM (The signal from WWV needs to be good)

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Apr 17, 2019 09:30:45   #
Orson Burleigh Loc: Annapolis, Maryland, USA
 
jerryc41 wrote:
I have several analog wall clocks, and twice a year, I have to get up on a stool, change the time by one hour, and play the game of trying to get the clock back onto the hook n the wall. A friend said he has atomic clocks, and they set themselves. Brilliant! I bought three atomic wall clocks.

Unfortunately, they run on batteries, so whether they set the time themselves or not, I still have to climb up there and replace the batteries. Buying those clocks accomplished nothing.

As a matter of fact, I bet they use more battery searching for the signal from Colorado, or wherever. Oh, and it took one clock almost a week to get the time right after DST ended.
I have several analog wall clocks, and twice a yea... (show quote)


Though we eventually get 'round to changing most of the wall clocks, we leave one alone, on so-called standard time, just as a reminder of better times.
A society that lies to itself about something as fundamental as time probably ought not to expect the truth about anything important.

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Apr 17, 2019 09:53:59   #
DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
 
I have a couple of antique pocket watches.
They are all right twice a day.
No batteries or winding or daylight savings adjustments needed.

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Apr 17, 2019 10:04:53   #
Halftrack
 
Why don't you lower the clocks to eye level?

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Apr 17, 2019 10:16:40   #
elliott937 Loc: St. Louis
 
Like you Jerry, I now have three radio-triggered wall clocks that respond to National Bureau of Standards in Boulder. And yes, battery fed, so in the spring I change those batteries. Oh, but it gets worse. In all, there are 21 clocks in this house. In the watch department, I must not confess, for I purchased a watch every time we take a cruise. Thank heaves, four of them are also radio-triggered, so I don't have to reset those. All others? Yes, twice a year, each must be rest. It's for these reasons that I could be happy with permanent daylight savings time for us.

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Apr 17, 2019 10:22:59   #
DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
 
Annual battery changes? Meh.
My cousin had 4 walls full of antique clocks. Most of them needed to be wound once a week. A couple of them needed to be wound once a day.
I have two antique clocks that need to be wound once a week. They are mechanical clocks that depend on pendulum lengths. One of them is pretty good but the other changes rate seasonally. I would expect that a pendulum would run slow in the summer since the temperature is higher and would increase the length of the pendulum. For some reason it runs faster in the summer and slower in the winter.

I look at the time on those clocks about once a week. I use my phone, or the oven, or the microwave, or the computer, or the other computer, or the other computer much more frequently. I might just stop them so that they're right twice a day.

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Apr 17, 2019 14:32:53   #
bertloomis Loc: Fort Worth, Texas
 
Mount the clocks lower on the wall.

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Apr 17, 2019 15:21:27   #
Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal
 
I have a "vintage" "heirloom" clock that a bro-in-law replaced the guts with a "modern" battery operated mechanism. It kinda looks good from the front, takes a AAA battery in the back. That's right- change the clock, change the battery. It slows down during the last month or 2. A nice new AAA battery lasts maybe 6-9 months, so might as well do both.
After yet 1 more Ever Ready knock off leaked on me, I bought a couple of "D" cells. 1 ~just fits in the bottom, so a little solder and some wire, and I have a clock that just keeps ticking.

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