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It’s not even about the manual clock changes honestly for me. I think that depends on how many clocks you have. My wife likes clocks and we have one in nearly

It’s not even about the manual clock changes honestly for me. I think that depends on how many clocks you have. My wife likes clocks and we have one in nearly every room, including 2 that are only reachable with a ladder. That's in addition to the stove, microwave, and even the refrigerator and toaster oven have a clock for no good reason. Plus the rice maker, bread maker and coffee maker also have clocks to allow timed cooking (i.e. have the rice ready by 6pm).

dijit 5y ago
Sure. But even if I had to change dozens of clocks: those days of feeling like shit are just not worth it. If I had to change dozens of clocks but not change my sleep schedule I would do that.
web007 5y ago
The answer for a few of those is easy: desync them by ±3.5 hours and then let them drift evermore. If you don't use the 6pm feature it doesn't matter if the time is accurate. I have a rice cooker that's permanently blinking 12s, and two TVs that I have no idea what time they're set to because I stopped updating them for DST and there has been a power outage or two since then. If you're unlucky and _have_ to have everything in sync then you've chosen your pain, so good luck to you. =)
- Johnny555 5y ago
  We use the rice cooker timer regularly, and have sometimes been bitten by not noticing that the clock is off due to DST and the rice is done an hour early (or late). I have a 20+ year old "atomic clock" in my office -- it is always correct since it listens for the DST flag in the time signal - I wish more devices would do that, but I suspect that the low frequency signal (and low power over most of the country) means a bigger antenna than most designers want. We don't use the bread maker time, but when setting the mode, it shows the estimated completion time rather than duration, so if you want to know how long it's going to take, you need to know what the time is set to. If there was a way to disable the time completely, that wouldn't be so bad, but I don't like the "set me!" flashing 12:00 all the time on the microwave, and setting it at some random wrong time seems worse than having it exactly an hour off.

dijit 5y ago

Sure. But even if I had to change dozens of clocks: those days of feeling like shit are just not worth it. If I had to change dozens of clocks but not change my sleep schedule I would do that.

web007 5y ago

The answer for a few of those is easy: desync them by ±3.5 hours and then let them drift evermore. If you don't use the 6pm feature it doesn't matter if the time is accurate. I have a rice cooker that's permanently blinking 12s, and two TVs that I have no idea what time they're set to because I stopped updating them for DST and there has been a power outage or two since then. If you're unlucky and _have_ to have everything in sync then you've chosen your pain, so good luck to you. =)

Johnny555 5y ago
We use the rice cooker timer regularly, and have sometimes been bitten by not noticing that the clock is off due to DST and the rice is done an hour early (or late). I have a 20+ year old "atomic clock" in my office -- it is always correct since it listens for the DST flag in the time signal - I wish more devices would do that, but I suspect that the low frequency signal (and low power over most of the country) means a bigger antenna than most designers want. We don't use the bread maker time, but when setting the mode, it shows the estimated completion time rather than duration, so if you want to know how long it's going to take, you need to know what the time is set to. If there was a way to disable the time completely, that wouldn't be so bad, but I don't like the "set me!" flashing 12:00 all the time on the microwave, and setting it at some random wrong time seems worse than having it exactly an hour off.