Idk maybe, just maybe. Add a cheap AF coin battery like for example motherboards to keep the internal clock alive.
Epic trick dear manufacturers. Well maybe it will cost them 0.05€ more per device… That means less Ferraris for the CEOs so idk about that.
TBH I never set them. Whats the point?
Imagine this… let’s all carry around pocket computers that sync with atomic clocks, they can the use low power radios to set cheap clocks… cough… bluetooth current time service… cough…
(Power flashes for a fraction of a fraction of a second)
Appliances:
Its 12:00
Always has been!
(Also the universe was created last thursday. Have fun!)
Elevators in the office building where I work have screens that run ads, but also have time and date in the corner. It resets every couple of days, so basically every day is in January 1970
With a bad administrator, apparently:-P.
Casual ads inside an elevator in an office building? This is the true dystopian future
I’d rather take the stairs (for up to ~10 floors)
My apartment complex also has ads inside elevator. Is it that bad?
That depends; do you like people stealing your attention for money?
I don’t have anything to do in elevator, so I do not care much about attention being ‘stolen’.
I always unplug my microwave because it’s old and makes a soft humming noise. Obviously I don’t bother to set the clock every time, so when it is plugged it usually shows --:–. However occasionally it indicates 12:00 instead, and I have no idea why it is sometimes different…
My guess is that there’s a capacitor in there somewhere. The capacitor stores enough charge to keep the time for short periods (like a power flicker). But it’s unreliable for longer periods of time (beyond a few minutes) and will cause clock drift.
So, when the power goes out for a medium length of time, the microwave resets to 12:00 to indicate that you need to set the time again
However, if the microwave is left unplugged for an extended period of time (a few days to weeks), the capacitor is fully drained. My guess is that this causes the time to be set to --:–
Why it would be designed like that? No idea
interesting theory, thx!
Ah, a fellow lastthursdayism believer
0:00 -:– 0:00 -:–
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Yeah, Atomic Clocks can measure time with great precision as the radioactive decay of elements is extremely consistent.
Here ya go: https://time.gov/
Does anybody really care?
Only that one teacher who cared if you walked in one second late but would then keep the whole class after the bell because they think they’re above not only all the kids but all the other teachers as well.
If so, I can’t imagine why
So many timers, so little time.
I don’t even notice all the little clocks. I actually like clocks a lot, and I check them a lot, but not the ones in these appliances. I usually don’t notice when they run fast or when we go in or out of DLS.
Sometimes my friend fixes mine when he’s here. I appreciate it. It bothers him. I don’t care about any of them except the auto feeder for the cats.
Power cut off at my house while I was at work night before last. Got the notification of restoration bout an hour before quitting time
We gotta love the little blessings.
Jokes on you, my oven has WiFi.
Some kid in Hoboken is gonna set your house on fire with it.
Good thing you can only turn it on remotely under certain conditions
So uh, what conditions. Like exactly? It’s for my english class.
Wrong:
- Pizza-time
- Lazy-time
- Caffeine-addiction-time
The power almost never goes out at my house, which is nice, but there are 4 appliances with clocks in my kitchen. The microwave runs fast and is usually about 12 minutes ahead every time the clocks change, the stove is always rock solid, the coffee pot is never set (despite being the only appliance with a timer mode that would actually be useful), and the air fryer is only accurate during summer because I can’t remember how to set it (and I don’t care enough to fix it).
My rice cooker is the cockroach of timekeeping. It was unplugged for almost a year and the clock was still on and accurate when I pulled it out of storage.
I just got a coffee pot with no timer, just an on/off switch. (Because it also has no black plastic, even the filter holder.) I never needed a timer, but now I do have to be aware the keep-hot plate will stay on until I turn it off, instead of self-stopping after 2 hours.
The only clock I bother setting is the stove
There is really no (functional) reason to have more than a single clock within a single room
None of my kitchen equipment has any sort of a clock on them.
Timers, yes. Clocks, no.
Hope I’m not alone in this - Appliances should only have relative timers.
It only needs to know how to run a program for 30 min, or activate with a delayed start in 5h. Clock time is meaningless for an oven.Appliance companies, are you listening? Hint: they’re not, circuitry design and manufacture has been outsourced so much they probably don’t even know where they get it from.
Yeah — stop making me reset the god damn oven, microwave, and coffee maker every time the power flickers. At the very least my coffee maker has a small battery in it that seems to endure shorter outages, but if manufacturers aren’t willing to have a back up battery for this, then they should take out the god damn clock altogether. It’s mostly pointless— especially these days. My microwave is so tedious too — it asks the day, month, and year. Why does my microwave need to know the fucking date? It actually serves no purpose.
“I want this to finish at 6PM” can be easier maths than 11h 15m from now.
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Yeah stopped bothering with setting up the hour manually for these things… Every rainy or windy season my electricity is quite erratic.
Me: this is so dumb
Also me: busts out laughing
