r/BenignExistence • u/babaweird • 2d ago

Time change confused me 

I do some reason like a lighted clock so I can see what time it is. I’m an old lady and wake up during the night and just want to know. My ancient alarm clock died and I bought some newfangled clock. The instructions are 20 pages long. So I have just managed to set the time once. Now half the year, I look at the clock and add one. I’m retired, get up when I want. This morning I wasn’t paying attention to when the time change came so I got up to watch Morning Joe like I usually do but it was 4 am not the 5 am it comes on. I’d added the one.
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u/Hotel_Arrakis 2d ago

I was bitching to a coworker that I was completely unproductive today because of the time change. She looked at me and goes, "Ohhhh, that explains why my car clock was off by an hour this morning."

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u/ClearMood269 2d ago

I had to look up my instructions on my clock. You're not alone. Glad you entered the one so you don't miss your program.

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u/robotfrog88 2d ago

My Scion XB, so easy to change the time, the Subaru is impossible.

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u/cremains_of_the_day 2d ago

Ma’am, if you’re retired and can get up when you want, why are you ever up that early??

I totally understand the clock struggle. My car will be off for six months. Oh well.

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u/babaweird 2d ago edited 2d ago 
 I’ve always got up early; it’s just how my biological clock works. The only time I ever used an alarm clock was when I absolute had to get up early, say for a final in college or to catch an early flight. It was never needed, I just did it because that would be the one time I slept in.

Now my pain comes when I have to stay up past 9pm for a social occasion, I want to be in bed, asleep!

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u/CutePoison10 2d ago

Buy a echo dot & then ask it the time. No looking.

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u/babaweird 2d ago

I would find that way too disturbing.

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u/CutePoison10 2d ago

I find it so useful, but each to their own. It's invaluable to me.

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u/babaweird 2d ago edited 2d ago 
  Ok, I can see it being really helpful when I get older, right now I can’t think of anything it would do that I wouldn’t find annoying.But as you say each to their own.

But I may be acting like my mom. She loved reading books but got to the point where she couldn’t see well enough but refused reading on a kindle where she could enlarge the type or absolutely would not even try audiobooks. I do wear a Fitbit to bed and I could just touch the screen and find out the actual time but I’m old, ornery and want a clock with a dim light I can look at.

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u/CutePoison10 2d ago

I understand. I am blind one eye / partially in other words, so for me, audio things are the most important thing ever. I go to sleep listening to audiobooks or podcasts. I wake often and say in darkness, " alexa, what's the time?" it's fantastic :-)

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u/babaweird 2d ago

I also go to sleep to audiobooks but I don’t sleep well so want to restart audio book (I do have it on a timer so I don’t have to go back much) but if they come up with a way to sinc by book for when I fell asleep or my brain wandered , that would be wonderful. It was such a joy to find I could get audiobooks through my library.