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Apr 17, 2019 15:32:04   #
DeanS Loc: Capital City area of North Carolina
 
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)


I solved this problem last century. I leave ALL my time pieces on EST year round - then during dst, I make the adjustment mentally. Prob solved!

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Apr 17, 2019 16:12:23   #
GeneS Loc: Glendale,AZ
 
My house insurance company sent me a free Amazon echo dot.
now I just say "alexa what time is it"
Want an extra clock?

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Apr 17, 2019 18:08:02   #
bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY
 
[quote=GeneS]My house insurance company sent me a free Amazon echo dot.
now I just say "alexa what time is it"
Want an extra clock?


Beware!!! Alexa reports to her masters!

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Apr 17, 2019 18:16:09   #
OutdoorOldie
 
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)


My ECHO tells me the time,and Alexa is always right!!She also tells me what day it is,and the weather in Michigan. Check it out!! No more chair-climbing!!!
annie

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Apr 17, 2019 18:30:59   #
OutdoorOldie
 
GeneS wrote:
My house insurance company sent me a free Amazon echo dot.
now I just say "alexa what time is it"
Want an extra clock?


Yes,but anonymously. I just speak nicely when she is near me!

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Apr 17, 2019 18:43:47   #
alby Loc: very eastern pa.
 
bobmcculloch wrote:
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.


unplug it for 12 min..... maybe

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Apr 17, 2019 19:37:56   #
GeneS Loc: Glendale,AZ
 
Jerry
You only think your clock is hard to reset.
Still trying to figure out DST



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Apr 17, 2019 19:40:37   #
Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.
 
My clock stopped working but it right twice a day.

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Apr 17, 2019 19:42:16   #
JerryOSF Loc: Bristol, VA
 
Old Indian saying: Only White Man dumb enough to cut 1 foot off bottom of blanket and sew it on top to make blanket 1 foot longer!

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Apr 18, 2019 02:23:50   #
arden1939
 
My flip phone is a smart watch that also makes phone calls.

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Apr 18, 2019 12:05:42   #
htbrown Loc: San Francisco Bay Area
 
Orson Burleigh wrote:
A society that lies to itself about something as fundamental as time probably ought not to expect the truth about anything important.


Standard time is a fiction too. It was originally called railroad time, because the railroads needed a standard to keep their schedules. Prior to that, every locale kept their own time. The ancients counted twelve hours between sunup and sundown, and another twelve for the night, which meant the actual length of the hours varied. More recently, we base our time on noon. But even that doesn't quite work.

If you live on the central meridian of your time zone, and you keep your clocks on standard time, then your clock's noon matches solar noon exactly twice a year, once in April and once in the fall.

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Apr 18, 2019 12:16:12   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
Or, an atomic clock that you plug into the wall.

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May 3, 2019 09:39:08   #
DickC Loc: NE Washington state
 
cdayton wrote:
I have a Casio G-Shock wristwatch - solar powered with radio for setting ds time. Now if my wall clocks were as smart.


And if only my broker could get smart!!

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May 3, 2019 17:08:40   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
DickC wrote:
And if only my broker could get smart!!


I hear that!!

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