Ora ilLegale clock tips to compensate for daylight savings time
By Darren Murph 
posted April 18th 2009 9:12AM
posted April 18th 2009 9:12AM
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posted April 18th 2009 9:12AM
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The lack of minute hand is really a non-issue when you consider there's 5 ticks between the hour markers. Sure you can't be precise down to the exact minute and second, but you can easily approximate the minute, and if your getting to work or a date on time relies on leaving at a precise minute, either you're really obsessive about when you leave or you need to leave a little earlier!
I'll be the first to admit it, I want to know THE time, which is why I wear one a Casio G-Shock atomic-solar-everying-and-the-kitchen-sink watches. I hate timepieces that give you rough estimates.
Yeah, I know, the time's on my cell phone. I still like wearing a watch.
Does it update Twitter when you change the timezone? No? Then it's 2008 technology and I'm not buying it.
Far from genius. No numbers; no minute hand! When checking the time I would probably be off by an hour anyway without numbers or a minute hand. And most the time knowing the time is too important to risk guessing that if the hour hand is either at 6 or 7:00. And did I mention no minute hand? You can only measure time accurately in intervals of 10minutes, and then you really need to zoom into the clock to see it properly without hurting your eyes.
And then there's the fact that it can tip over accidentally.
Nope, intervals of five minutes. Count the tick marks.
Your cell phone clock should auto-update, the system knows where you are. Everyone saying their clocks sync by radio or whatever, how do you tell your clock where you are? The time signal is always UTC, so like your PC you have to have some way to tell the clock "adjust from this time so much". Have to look that up.
Personally, I don't reset my clocks. I keep them at UTC and subtract the appropriate amount.
Well considering we don't observe any form of daylight saving in this redneck part of the world, I can't see what use this would be... Other than to tell the time.
Yeah but my computer is able to automatically change for daylight savings anyway. So nyer.
;)
To check if it is DST I just go to isitDST.com
That looks like something they would sell at Target. I'd buy one if it was cheap...
Genius solution for an idiotic problem.
Maybe he can next figure out how to get rid of the nuisance that is DST? I don't understand why politicians don't abolish it. Most countries will say that all others use DST so they should too. But the US, for example, doesn't have this excuse. If it was to abolish DST, the rest of the world would follow.
all my clocks are either radio controled or set through an ntp timeserver. with the exception of mechanical chronographs i don't see any reason to use a clock that is not set automatically.
the clock is also extremely hard to read without numbers, or at least an indicator for 12.
you need to look pretty thoroughly to see if it's on the 10 or 11.
geting a time precise enough to catch a train or not to be late for work is absolutely impossible without a hand for minutes (and seconds!).
a clever idea that doesn't really work, to adress a problem that's not there anymore, since years - absolutely useless.