How many clocks do you have to change?

[ShiroKuro]

@Bernard I didn’t know that wind up clocks can’t go backward… well maybe I did but I forgot.

[Bernard]

@ShiroKuro It's probably ok on modern mechanical clocks. But it could have dire consequences for antique chiming clocks.

[Daniel]

@shirokuro You never wind a mechanical watch backwards, either. I don't even do that with my quartz Casio analog.

[Rontuner]

MrsTuner's car handled the timechange without any help...

[DougG]

[Daniel]

Hahaha!

[ShiroKuro]

@Rontuner So presumably it’s connected to… the internet? what year is it?

[jon-nyc]

Turns out the car changed itself.

Alarm clock is a simple button for DST on/off.

Three appliances- stove, microwave, coffeemaker.

Took less than 1m in total.

I still don’t get all the fuss this issue brings.

[AdagioM]

Four in the kitchen. One in the dining room (analog). One in the car. And one on my desk (battery clock).

I think that’s all.

Oh, three lamp timers. Oof.

[ShiroKuro]

@jon-nyc said:

I still don’t get all the fuss this issue brings.

Oh for the record, I don't either! I was just laughing at how many clocks we have.

Also FTR, I really don't want them to do away with DST, move to permanent standard time or DST. I love the late, late summer evenings when it's light until practically 9:30pm, and I would hate for it to be super dark in the mornings all winter long.

I get that changing the time comes with some issues, but I prefer it to the alternatives (as I understand them).

[jon-nyc]

Yeah few people seem to know that we went off of DST in the 70s and reversed ourselves within a year.

The vast majority of people who are against it aren’t thinking about the effects on half the year, they’re thinking only about not having to change clocks twice a year, as if everything else stays the same.

Of course for southern states it wouldn’t matter too much. But in the north, especially on the western edge of time zones, it would be a big deal.