Mine's been blinking "18:88" for over the last 5 years now. It's a pain in the ass to set the clock on it so I gave up a looong time ago, and don't even notice it anymore. Besides there's already a clock on the wall, on the coffee maker, on the microwave, and one on my wrist so it just adds to the confusion.

Lke they say, "man with many clocks never knows what time it is."

The dreaded blinking 00:00. Only it continues to increment minutes so you come back and it’s blinking 3:44.

My appliances are not and will not be connected to any network.

Literally the only, single, solitary "smart" function I want in my appliances.

My ovens actually do query an NTP server, although one from the manufacturer. I wonder what happens if I advertise a local NTP through DHCP, will they ignore it or use it over the manufacturers NTP.

I mean, obviously this is correct. And if you're extra fancy, you can place a Post-it note with the current local time delta next to it.

Until you get a power outage and it resets.

Careful, they'll do it by connecting to WiFi. Don't worry, they'll "only" use it for setting the time.

But yeah, it really should use the atomic clock radio frequencies.

We just stopped flipping our clocks this year in parts of Canada. There's been a bit of confusion because some automatic stuff changed anyway but overall it's been fine so far.

BC gave up waiting for our southern neighbours this year, and it significantly reduced the number of dead deer on the highway the past few weeks (the death count usually skyrockets for a few weeks during the changeover).

We ended up settling for a permanent gmt-7, where we were previously gmt-8.

Agreed that daylight savings is dumb and should end. That said, time zones are typically in 1 hour offsets because it's a reasonable increment and makes that make between time zones easier. The time we end up in should line up with the existing international time zones instead of making up more shit to replace it.

I want to set my clock once, then ignore it until the battery dies.

I feel the same way, so that's why all our clocks are radio controlled. Even the old analog clock got its mechanism replaced by a radio controlled one.

Or more than half the year, depending on when the stove broke.

I hate those 2 to 3 weeks where I forget that it's ahead an hr and I star to panic that I'm late AF

you just have to turn it clock wise