Topic: How much time do we have?

[Blair]

Literally. But I'm not asking what you were probably thinking.

How many time-telling devices are in your home?


I think about mine every time that the power goes out. I grab my phone with the unaffected clock and go through resetting the rest using it so that the first clock isn't 3 or 4 minutes different from the last But then there is daylight savings time in which every clock is adjusted.

Though most of them I don't have to reset until DST, between computers, phone, recorders, kitchen devices, phone, security, miscellaneous devices, and standalone clocks (not counting any watches because I don't wear them anymore) inside and outside of the house, I have just short of 30 devices I could check the time on!

In other words, if I'm late, it is absolutely my fault

[Tom]

I have only one clock, which I have to reset manually when there is a power outage. My bedside alarm clock (which I don't use as an alarm anymore. I have used my iPod touch for a long time now).

As to my devices:
Living room wall (radio-controlled with batteries)
Alarm clock
Notebook
Phone handset (which looses its time constantly for some reason)
Small clock in bathroom with batteries
Mobile phone
Android tablet
iPod touch

For daylight saving time, I have to adjust the following manually:
Bathroom clock
Alarm clock
Phone
Mobile phone
Clock in car

[Achim]

Hmmm... Interesting, as I came across this one internet post yesterday where is was pointed out that this is one thing that makes us humans special. We are the only species measuring time and as such the only ones worried about it running out...

In my home I have:
Clock on kitchen wall (this is the one that we used to have in my parents home and which is probably several years older than me, if not more).
Dish-drier; this was reset during a recent power outage and I haven't cared enough to set it properly again.
iPod in bedroom which I use as an alarm.

The following devices have their internal clocks automatic set, even when I change timezones:
iPhone
iPad
MacBook


I own a pocket watch, but shortly after I started having a mobile phone game up using it.

EDIT:
Found the post I mentioned above:

[Kathy]

I have:
- an alarm clock
- clock on my microwave
- on my computer

[Dragonfire]

There are...ummm..4 cable boxes in the house with clocks..the microwave, the stove...4 or 5 wall clocks..the computer, laptop, tablet, cellphone...and everyone has a watch.  Which reminds me...I need to get a new battery for mine.

[DJ Doena]

There's one on my washing machine which I've never set.

I don't have any kind of clock in my hallway or kitchen.

The only clock in my living room is the one on the secondary wireless phone.

The biggest amount of clocks I have is in my bedroom: There is the primary wireless phone, there's my alarm clock and the ones on my iPad and computer.

As far as mobile watches go (I don't really take the iPad with me anywhere) I have my wrist watch, the clock on my cell phone nad the one on my old-fashioned PDA.


BTW: My alarm clock has been ringing for the past 17 minutes without me bothering to shut it off. Which would explain why I learned to sleep through the sound when I actually need it.

[Dragonfire]

I forgot I my alarm clock...lol  and there are clocks on the cordless phones...2 of those, and maybe on the phone that needs a phone line.  I haven't used that one in so long, I'm not sure. 
There is a clock in the car ...  it is 4 minutes fast, but I haven't figured out how to change it yet.   

[Jimmy]

Let see

I have a clock on my bedroom wall,
I have the hour on my TV,
I have it on my computer (of course),
I have it on my oven,
I have it too on my microwave.

So it's five place (only the one on the computer and the clock on the wall kept the time when we loose the electricity).

In the past I had a watch too, but I can't wear one anymore because it give me huge skin problem...