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I just want to know why the clock can't be set using the GPS.

mcny 8y ago
Not a GM employee but I think the number of people who mess with their clock is bigger than we think. People are weird. They set their clock five minutes ahead or whatever. I also think an optional cellular/GPS based time update would be nice though.
- xvf22 8y ago
  This is true but you could allow the user to set an offset.
  - craz8 8y ago
    And now you’ve added 2 configuration options that need to be tested, documented, and supported for probably 20 Of your customers This is exactly the hidden complexity that HN users love to add to products that adds no real value and sells no extra product
    - awinder 8y ago
      2? It’s pulling time from gps so it’s 1 config option for time offset, defaulting to 0. Anyways, android and iOS and Mac and windows and etc all have the ability to fetch time or use gps to set time with a user override to do their own tricks. We all woke up today so I think the world survived.
      - logical42 8y ago
        There’s also daylight savings time.
  - FreakyT 8y ago
    This is the approach that the Apple Watch engineers used, and it remains the only device I've seen with this option. Does anyone here with an Apple Watch use the time offset feature?
    - wool_gather 8y ago
      Yes. I've set my clocks a few minutes ahead for years, and I do the same on my Watch. It's nice to have, but the helpful illusion is not entirely maintained: it is only the main watch faces that display the time with offset. There are other views where the current time is shown incidentally, and it is the actual, non-offset, time.
- MisterTea 8y ago
  > People are weird. They set their clock five minutes ahead or whatever. Back in uni days I would set my bedside alarm clock 10 minutes faster. No joke it almost never failed to fool my groggy morning brain on days I hit snooze one too many times. "Oh crap I'm going to be late!" toss clothes on, run to kitchen for snack only to see that I've got another 10 minutes. whew. Crazy I know, but it worked. I also think I did similar with my cars clock by setting it faster when I first started driving to work. Now I smoke a little weed before bed, sleep like a baby and wake up much easier.
timthorn 8y ago
At least on UK models, it gets set by RDS.
cmurf 8y ago
Or WWVB. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB
btgeekboy 8y ago
Ford’s Sync 3 can - but only when you go push the button to sync manually, and it has no idea what Daylight Savings Time is, so you might as well just type in the time yourself.

mcny 8y ago

Not a GM employee but I think the number of people who mess with their clock is bigger than we think. People are weird. They set their clock five minutes ahead or whatever. I also think an optional cellular/GPS based time update would be nice though.

xvf22 8y ago
This is true but you could allow the user to set an offset.
- craz8 8y ago
  And now you’ve added 2 configuration options that need to be tested, documented, and supported for probably 20 Of your customers This is exactly the hidden complexity that HN users love to add to products that adds no real value and sells no extra product
  - awinder 8y ago
    2? It’s pulling time from gps so it’s 1 config option for time offset, defaulting to 0. Anyways, android and iOS and Mac and windows and etc all have the ability to fetch time or use gps to set time with a user override to do their own tricks. We all woke up today so I think the world survived.
    - logical42 8y ago
      There’s also daylight savings time.
- FreakyT 8y ago
  This is the approach that the Apple Watch engineers used, and it remains the only device I've seen with this option. Does anyone here with an Apple Watch use the time offset feature?
  - wool_gather 8y ago
    Yes. I've set my clocks a few minutes ahead for years, and I do the same on my Watch. It's nice to have, but the helpful illusion is not entirely maintained: it is only the main watch faces that display the time with offset. There are other views where the current time is shown incidentally, and it is the actual, non-offset, time.
MisterTea 8y ago
> People are weird. They set their clock five minutes ahead or whatever. Back in uni days I would set my bedside alarm clock 10 minutes faster. No joke it almost never failed to fool my groggy morning brain on days I hit snooze one too many times. "Oh crap I'm going to be late!" toss clothes on, run to kitchen for snack only to see that I've got another 10 minutes. whew. Crazy I know, but it worked. I also think I did similar with my cars clock by setting it faster when I first started driving to work. Now I smoke a little weed before bed, sleep like a baby and wake up much easier.

timthorn 8y ago

At least on UK models, it gets set by RDS.

cmurf 8y ago

Or WWVB. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB

btgeekboy 8y ago

Ford’s Sync 3 can - but only when you go push the button to sync manually, and it has no idea what Daylight Savings Time is, so you might as well just type in the time yourself.