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Daylight savings (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] HatFullOfSky@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Every appliance in my house (with a clock anyway) and all of our clocks (2 analog, 2 digital) require manual changing. None of them are connected to the internet, which I would think is the only way they would be able to. Do they really make "smart" analog clocks now?

Edit: my car is somewhere in between. It'll "automatically" change, but I have to turn it on/off. It's basically just automated the action of moving the hour forward or back.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some have some kind of date tracking built in. But it's fairly rare.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like mechanical clocks to account for daylight savings this would be a bit off after one or two leap years; could be doable but a bit complicated to design? Kinda fun to think about

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean they would be, but that would still be much less clock-changing to do.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Definitely. I'm still going to spend time fascinated by the idea of the gearing and clockwork to make a clock that tracks year/month/day and accounts for leap years.

I'd be more than okay with permanent standard time, myself.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Radio controlled clocks exist. Not everything needs to be connected to the internet.

[–] HatFullOfSky@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah, I forgot Atomic (radio) clocks existed. My parents used to have one of those over a decade ago, but I always saw them as more of a novelty. Not saying they're not valid, just uncommon IMO.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah it's funny cause I recently made a post regarding my atomic synced watch on !watches@lemmy.ml. They're pretty accurate. Though for my situation, I think I might test syncing outside to see if I can get lower latency.