# Is my "TIME" up? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 3, 2017, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-time-up/787995 "2017-06-03T11:32:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-time-up/787995/1 "2017-06-03T11:32:56Z")
My watch died the other day and the assistant at the jewelry counter tried a new battery and it would not work I get up this morning to find out what time it is and look at my phone and it says 210am. Clearly it is later than that since the sun is shinning I pulled out the battery and stuck it back in. Back to 210. It did move on from 210 before I took it apart. Is it time to buy a new phone or is my time up??:eek::eek: 255 now, that was quick I my phone done or am I? phone part operates oh no, its July 22, maybe that’s my final day on Earth! 2016…guess not ---
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-time-up/787995/2 "2017-06-03T13:59:44Z")
Look around you. Are there certain things, that on closer inspection, do not make sense? Are certain buildings only partially built, like a stage set? Do you have the scientific equipment to verify that you are actually on Earth, instead of another planet? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-time-up/787995/3 "2017-06-03T16:29:14Z")
A smartphone should, if there is Internet service available, get the time from there. If not available, you may need someone to call or text you to get the time fixed. Of course, do check your time zone and see if that got messed up. If the phone is resetting to an earlier time, that suggests that it got reset in some way. So maybe the timezone got messed up, too. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-time-up/787995/4 "2017-06-09T20:40:15Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > A smartphone should, if there is Internet service available, get the time from there. If not available, you may need someone to call or text you to get the time fixed. > > Of course, do check your time zone and see if that got messed up. If the phone is resetting to an earlier time, that suggests that it got reset in some way. So maybe the timezone got messed up, too. Ya call it a smart phone? It be a stupid phone. The battery runs down fast too. Probably a new phone soon. Bigger screen though. I use the phone for work. Hard to put text in with being “half blind!” > [@Flyer](#): > > Look around you. Are there certain things, that on closer inspection, do not make sense? Are certain buildings only partially built, like a stage set? Do you have the scientific equipment to verify that you are actually on Earth, instead of another planet? …lots of weird things around and disappearing :eek::eek: I must be near the end! :eek::dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-time-up/787995/5 "2017-06-10T01:14:18Z")
Hmm… This sounds serious, but time will tell. Are you able to clock in at work? Can you still watch tv? Get back to us in a couple minutes. Oh, and I’d consider both a new phone and a new watch if I were you. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-time-up/787995/6 "2017-06-15T11:40:20Z")
> [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](#): > > Hmm… This sounds serious, but time will tell. Are you able to clock in at work? > Can you still watch tv? > > Get back to us in a couple minutes. > > Oh, and I’d consider both a new phone and a new watch if I were you. 😉 I dont clock in at work…hmm now is that true or…am I missing the clock? Oh the tv? I watch it all the time, kind of black though like the old days of television. I thought there were talkies now?? I gotta have a new watch! My arm is naked!:smack::smack: ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-time-up/787995/7 "2017-06-15T13:17:53Z")
I thought this was going to be a thread about TIME Magazine. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-time-up/787995/8 "2017-06-15T16:17:58Z")
SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME!!! My watch died last Thursday at 9:10am. When I got home from work, my kitchen clock was dead at 10:30! When I finally found a new battery for my watch, the watch worked for 14 hours and died at 11:10am! If it were just me, I would be thinking “amazing coincidence”, but now weird time things are happening all over the universe… freaky.