Changing clock time displays (was: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-08 (Saturday))

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

Sun, 9 Mar 2025 18:54:27 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

Mar 9, 2025 11:39:44 AM PDT, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>:

On 3/9/2025 10:33 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

Sorry this is late today - it's a combination of the switch to Daylight
Savings Time and me deciding to run errands this morning (to beat the
crowd, thanks to DST!!).

It's "Saving", Ian, not "Savings".

I didn't realize today was DST.  I was wondering why I slept in so late.
I miss the old days when you had to manually adjust all the clocks.
At least then you knew it was daylight savings. Now it just sort of
happens automatically without warning.

The only clock I still have to change myself is the one in the dashboard
of my SUV.

Mine is the microwave. Everything else adjusts itself automatically. I
didn't know today was the time to switch either.

Next time, I'll call you at 2 am to alert you to the time change.

What clocks aren't networked around here? Clock in the tv monitor but
that loses time with every power glitch. Thermostat. Fake antique bar
wall clock. Stove. Microwave. Refrigerator. (Why does the refrigerator
need a clock?) Intercom control panel with built-in radio and room
speaker system, which is decades old and the sound is scratchy so it's
not used but if removed would leave a hole. One vehicle has both a clock
on the dashboard and a networked clock that's part of the navigation
system that must be manually switched to displaying daylight time; I
have no idea why.

The clock that receives the short wave time signal maintains time but
must have missed the code to display daylight time. These clocks display
the pre-set offset from Greenwich that's a fixed offset on every
calendar day except the day of transition. There's a two-byte code to
tell the cloc to make transition at 2 am on the affected day. If I
ignore it it will certainly display the desired offset tomorrow.