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Am I the last one to reset my watch? Should we keep on resetting our clocks twice a year?
Okay, I set 2 alarm clocks, & the 3rd is an auto-setting one, set from somewhere in Colorado where they have the Department of Clocks. Also, I reset my clock radio & even the clock in the car.
Now the problem is my pretty little digital watch, which has hot pink around the face & yellow buttons with a turquoise & white vinyl strap & works just as fine as a more expensive watch. Lovely. Unfortunately, I was carrying the directions in a Ziplock bag in my purse in case I wanted to use the alarm, & I lost them. So, it's back to Penney's, I suppose, or I could try to find the brand name on the watch when I take out my contact lenses & can then read all kinds of fine print. Then I could search online for the directions or an address to write.
My other watch is a navy blue Timex one. The buttons are really tough to push, but at least I still have the instructions. I admit, though, I still haven't set it either & only think about it when I'm actually wearing it. I'll read the directions sometime when I'm not wearing the contact lenses.
So, what do you think? Should I just forget it & be content to be right 6 mos./yr, like I used to do with the hard-to-set clock in my old car? Am I the only person who faces this situation, which is bound to cause some eventual embarrassment? Of course, I'd be early instead of late or just in a panic over thinking that I'm late, just like our dear friend in a frenzy, the White Rabbit. Is all this too much hassle or what?
No, Michael. I only have one of those auto-setting clocks, one of my alarm clocks. Unfortunately, the watchmakers believe that the ladies don't need as many bells & whistles on their watches. That has been a problem for years.
I agree, Pearl. I like my atomic alarm clock except that the alarm is too loud. It's just too alarming.
What does the style have to do with it? Well, it took me about 6 yrs of watching for a new ladies' watch that wasn't pink or black, which wouldn't go with anything I have, but then it's so tough to set & tricky to set the alarm & chime that I end up carrying around & loosing the directions, though the plan was to make a photocopy to carry around.
The other thing is that my wrists are tiny, so a man's atomic watch just wouldn't adjust enough for me. I'm sure there are tougher problems in life, but I always like to question the way we do things.
I'm laughing because people often write satires for the editorial page about farmers having problems with the change just to see how many folks will recognize that it's a spoof on the whole thing & that the farmers & the cows can do as they please.
DST began during WWII as an energy saving endeavor. Our country has tried at least once to make it year round, but the problem was that too many children waiting for schoolbuses got hit alongside the roads. So, they've kept DST as it is now, usually with lobbying from the sellers of barbecue equipment wanting DST to begin in the spring. I like it, too, & don't like winter darkness much at all, regardless of what we do.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Same here. My experience is almost exactly what you describe. One atomic clock, which I love because it gets the signal from Colorado and doesn't need anything from me. Plus two digital watches, plus the digital thing in the car.
Wrangling the digital watches drives me crazy every six months. I no longer have the instructions, which were printed in 3-point type and written in pidgin English, so they were nearly useless anyway. But I can usually figure out how to change the hour without much difficulty by trying five or ten combinations of buttons. (HINT: For some combinations, you press a button, but for other combinations, you hold a button down for several seconds.)
The really maddening thing that always happens to me is that with my watches the "CHIME" feature automatically turns on whenever the hour is reset. Why this is I have no idea. And the sadists who designed these infernal gadgets made it necessary to go through a sequence of several steps to turn the "CHIME" feature off. So it always takes me at least a half an hour to find the right combination. It's always the last combination that I try.
I don't even bother with the one in the car.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
I really don't understand what the color and style of the watch has to do with this question but so be it....
I don't use watches and the car is the only one I don't change and just adjust the time in my head 6 months out of the year.
Some states have done away with this stupidity and I wish we all would.
It's just not needed any more . Not that it ever was. Why wouldn't the farmer just get up in his own time and quit when he needed too. Dumb...just plain dumb.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
Both of my watches are analog, not digital. So, it is easy to reset my watches. It did take me awhile to figure out how to reset the clock in my car; we've only had the car for 18 months and I did have to pull out the owner's manual-it was not at all intuitive-it took me a week to tackle that clock. The day after the time changed my husband and I reset our bedside alarm clock, the analog clock on our front porch, vintage kitchen wall clock, microwave, and oven. All of our other time pieces reset themselves-mobile phones, computers, tv cable box, and an atomic clock in our dining room.
I do love my mobile phone; it not only reset for the time change; but also showed local time when I traveled to Phoenix (3 hours difference for me) a few weeks ago, and then reset itself when I returned home. I kept my watch on my home time and used my phone for the local time while I was in Phoenix.
I suspect that you could make learning to change the time on your watches a game; challenge yourself to figure out how to change the time. Or; go "old school" like I have; and get yourself an analog watch.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
They should leave the time as it is now. Many people farmed back in the day and needed extra day light to work in. Now most small farms have closed as families have moved to the suburbs so we don't need daylight saving time any more. Poppy
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
follow the instructions for the one and then extrapolate that to the other is a good fix. waiting for the time to come around means the clock is meaningless to me. i'm the clock setter around here but some of them have me stumped.
- DerailLv 71 decade ago
I don't reset the clocks at all. That way when the time change returns, I'm good to go.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
No, we should keep it one way..
Vote on Standard or Daylight Savings time in the next election.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Why do we still have to have Day Light Saving Time???
