I’ve never had a clock try to automatically adjust and fail. My phone just updates. My watch just ticks along until i manually change the time.
I updated the time in my car last night, and i think that’s the last one i need to change.
I have a new thermostat on our main floor which I put in a couple of years ago that self-adjusts. That means every year I adjust it on Saturday night, and then adjust it several days later when I notice it’s an hour off.
I was thrilled when I turned on my car to see that it automatically changed the time! It’s a 2024 Subaru Crosstrek, the first car I’ve had do that. We had a Subaru Forester that had the absolute worst method of changing the clock. There were paddle things at the bottom of the steering wheel that you had to manipulate to get to the menu, then find what you wanted to do, and then try and change the time. I sat in a Walmart parking lot for over a half hour. I’d almost get it and then I’d flip the wrong paddle and have to start over. UGH
This made me realize we have a lot less clocks that we did in the olden days. Probably because everyone has a phone and apple watch, We don’t have alarm clocks by our beds, there is no “kitchen clock” or “mantel clock” in our home. Our microwave has a clock that could be enabled, but we don’t use it and it’s shows nothing when not in use. So, not a “lot less.” We don’t have any clocks. Our cars auto change. As do our phones.
That changed several years ago and is now more limited:
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Not that it matters much, I’m still using LL Bean things I bought in the 1970s when I lived in Boston.
This is the question I answered. I have one. The clock in the bathroom is radio-controlled, but it doesn’t change by itself. So I have to remove a battery, and then put it back in. And then the clock adjusts the time.
It sometimes wanders a bit, which it shouldn’t do. We have another radio-controlled clock in the other bathroom, which is even further away from the outside, but it changes just fine. So it must be the clock.
My old alarm clock had a similar problem. After 20 years it died, and I bought a similar model. Fortunately it changes by itself.
The number of devices that didn’t even try? Car clock, 2 ovens, 3 clocks in the living-dining area and 5 watches.
Why do we have 3 clocks in the living-dining area? Two are mechanical and make noise. The other one is a Tube Clock, which is actually visible at night, unlike the mechanical ones. At least they are on 3 different sides of the living-dining area.
In Illinois, or at least in Cook County, judges have to run for election/retention; often, there will be dozens of them on the general election ballot, most of which I’ve never heard of.
I rely on guidance from the Illinois Bar Association; they provide lists of judges whom they don’t recommend. When I vote, I have the Bar’s guide with me, to make sure I’m down-voting those whom they don’t recommend.
Reminds me of the old alarm clock my parents had when I was a kid. We kids were in their room waiting to go some place. My mom was talking about the clock and how it had started being unreliable. She told my dad they should buy a new one. Just as she said it, the alarm on the clock started ringing. And it was not set to that time.
Yeah, here in L.A., too. I look at the voter’s guide I get from the Dems to check them out. If I forget to do that, I just don’t vote for any.
But for propositions I always check them out. They can be ambiguously worded (purposefully!), and I want to get them right.
We get a nice voter information brochure from the Secretary of State’s office. It’s usually sufficient for me to figure out who to vote for.
Huh, i just changed the time on my Subaru Forester last night, and was grateful that it’s one of the easiest cars I’ve had for doing that. There’s a little paddle just below the clock display that you can press or lever up/down, and it was all pretty intuitive. Also, it let me change the hour one notch, i didn’t have to move it 60 minutes, unlike certain cars I’ve owned.
I still have a kitchen clock, but it changes itself. We had to change the time on the stove and microwave, though. The microwave is especially annoying, because of we lose power for a second or two, it loses the time and date and it won’t do anything at all until you reset those. And the kicker is that it doesn’t even display the date. The higher-model let you pre-program it to come on tomorrow or something, and this one shared a lot of the interface. But you can’t use it until you enter the date, which it never displays. Whenever i set it, it’s 11, 11, 11. Fortunately, i don’t need to enter the century.
At least it keeps working when it doesn’t know that we’ve moved from dst to standard time.
I get election info from lots of sources, including what the candidates mail me. But i also check with politically connected friends, the league of women voters, etc.
I wasn’t sure what to say about “needs to ask about party”, because most of our local elections are non-partisan. So I’m judging the candidates on things other than party. But yeah, party is one thing I’ll consider when it’s relevant.
I wont take free food that is intended for disadvantaged people. One exception- i was doing a little study on food for the homeless in Santa Clara county I was a volunteer City Commissioner) . I decided to eat only on what a person could get free or on food stamps for a month. (Lots of bean burritos with government cheese). The Cathedral gave away a food box every month, and in one park no less than two orgs had free breakfast and lunches- lunch was either bean burritos! and fruit or sandwiches and fruit. Water bottles or juice boxes. However, another local church had big bags of free potatoes and onions, plus lots of day old bread from Trader Joes. When I made my notes and was gonna leave the priest pressed upon me some of the bread- insisted it would go bad. So I took three bags of bread, but gave a donation. I gave one bag of bread to a neighbor.
So, at least in San Jose- no one would get too hungry.
My husband and I vote in every single election we can vote in. This is going to sound really terrible, but I asked my husband if we needed to vote this Tuesday, and he said we didn’t, and I took him at his word. I have no idea why we didn’t need to vote. Is it because there are no local elections? People running unopposed? Couldn’t tell you. I was too sick and exhausted and frazzled to care, all that mattered is that I could check it off my to-do list.
But when we do need to vote, we take turns every cycle collecting data on candidates right down to the local school board and then sharing our info with each other. We start with party websites and local interviews but we’ll dig deep if we have to. I had to do it last time. It can be very time-consuming. Guess he’s on the hook for midterms.
Things are a big simpler in New Jersey than other places. No dog catcher on the ballot. The only nominally non-partisan position that is voted on is the school board. Many positions that are voted on in other states are appointed her. That includes judges, prosecutors and the state AG.
I look at the sample ballot to see if there are any ballot questions. There were none this year. I do research to see which board of ed candidates are in which parties.
I check the candidates’ websites if they’ve got them, but I also check whatever other sources I can readily find; which includes news sites, the local Democratic Party recommendations, letters to local papers (which yes still exist around here), sometimes asking people, sometimes asking the candidate. Sometimes I still can’t find much. Sometimes more than one judicial candidate has the same rating.
Didn’t vote, because you apparently had to pick one or the other.
The party is a factor, but it’s not the only factor. I’m not going to vote these days for an unopposed Republican, though I used to often do that; but I’m not going to vote for an unopposed Democrat if I think they’re a terrible person.
Didn’t vote in that one either, because while I think it should be an option I think it should only be one if it’s listed as’is it a factor’ and not as if picking that means it’s your only factor.
And I didn’t vote in the free food poll because it depends on various factors. I do get SNAP so I would feel it was OK for me to take it. I don’t usually eat white bread or bologna, but would probably take them if my supplies were low enough. If the peanut butter wasn’t sugared I’d take it in any case, if it were a store I shop in otherwise at least occasionally.
Oh yes — I spent quite a while this year researching a state ballot question, because it was about trading some supposedly forever wild land in the Adirondacks for some other land, and I knew zilch about either area of land. I wound up voting for it, partly because one of the things I found out was that they’d screwed up and allowed the land that’s to be taken out of the wild designation to have already been built on years ago, and partly because I found more than one site saying local environmental groups were in favor. It seems to have passed.
Our animal control office is appointed annually, not elected.
I have no idea on what schedule our animal control officer is hired, but she’s not elected.
It’s really easy to research ballot candidates/measures here in all-mail-in state of Colorado. On the first weekend after the ballots come in the mail, the wife and I sit down at our computers and do research online (wide variety of sources) and then talk back and forth on what we support, with at least 90% agreement.
In general it falls roughly along party lines (D) though I’m technically a Libertarian (long story and it’s in another thread). Historically it’s almost always been that way since I became eligible for voting, though there were skilled members of the (R) team that got votes on the local level before the Tea Party and then MAGA rotted out any sanity in the party.
For unopposed or “vote to retain” ballots, I’ll check them briefly - if they’re behind causes I support, or on the record for sane judgements, I’ll vote, or if it’s a candidate that I want to send a positive message for, otherwise, likely not.
The only measure on the recent ballot was school board directors, and I ended up voting with the recommended candidates from the state Teacher’s Union, which also aligned with my majority party sympathy. And even without the union, seeing the other side’s attack ads, and the extremely MAGA endorsements of the others would have led to the same choices.
My state does not send out sample ballots. Ever.
What’s the difference between “vanilla” and “French vanilla” (in ice cream)? I know, Google is my friend…but let’s hear it from a Doper.