It’s that time again – spring forward, fall back. Though I always forget which is which.
How many clocks in your household and/or place of business do you need to reset manually, versus those which reset themselves?
My answer is four: alarm clock, microwave, stove, and wristwatch. (Yes, I’m old-fashioned.) The desktop computer, laptop & cell phone all change automatically.
2 antique clocks
watch
microwave
coffee maker
stove
car
garage clock
phone
2 weather clocks (programmed to self-adjust but never do)
Home made wall clock
I guess I could even include a backyard sundial but I never use it.
None, you bunch of luddites. I only have two clocks, my PC and my phone. Our daylight saving here in Australia changed a month ago (forward for us)*, and I was actually awake at 2am so I watched it happen.
*So as not to confuse you, America, remember yours goes back tonight
I actually change my vehicle clock, microwave clock, and the clock on my old digital video recorder. There are a lot of other devices with clocks in the house that I don’t usually bother to keep set to the right time: stereo, electric range, coffee maker whose timer mode I don’t use, a stopwatch that also tells time but which I only ever use as a stopwatch, etc.
We have about 13 usable wristwatches. It’s tedious to adjust them all, but at the same time it makes me feel like Uncle Scrooge taking a dive in his money pool. :o
Then there’s: 4 wall clocks, 4 alarm clocks, 2 cars, 3 thermostats, 3 lighting timers, 1 water softener timer, 1 oven and 1 microwave oven. (I’m ignoring the coffemaker we don’t use and the VCR that’s been blinking for a year.)
I changed (or will change) two-- my clock radio and my car.
Other members of my household will change at least seven more, and we’ve got a clock radio in the guest bedroom that gets reset when we have guests, rather than when the power goes out or daylight savings time changes.
(The list: 1 watch, 2 cars, the oven, the microwave, a coocoo clock, another fancy clock, another clock radio . . . I feel like I’m forgetting something, but I’m not sure what).
Maybe one day the rest of us will wise up.
Eight timepieces for me.
Watch
Digital clock in bedroom (GIANT numbers I can see across the room without glasses)
Five other clocks
Car clock (Some do it automatically? Cool.)
I never bother with clock radio or microwave.
Computers, kindle, phone do it by magic.
Three wall clocks
Two clock radios
Wall oven
Microwave
Kid’s bedside clock/nightlight
Old car
Things that change automatically:
Two phones
Two tablets
Three laptops
Fios set top box
New car
Things I don’t change:
Thermostat (don’t use programmable fealtures during DST)
Irrigation system (only used during DST)