(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
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)
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
Does anybody really know what time it is?
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.
@flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz , time to fight @yesman@lemmy.world
Wrong:
- Pizza-time
- Lazy-time
- Caffeine-addiction-time
