Power outage

OpenStars

Well, you know what that means. Time to FAAFO!? Just in case... it was nice knowing you.:-D

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I just got a coffee pot with no timer, just an on/off switch. (Because it also has no black plastic, even the filter holder.) I never needed a timer, but now I do have to be aware the keep-hot plate will stay on until I turn it off, instead of self-stopping after 2 hours.

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The only clock I bother setting is the stove

There is really no (functional) reason to have more than a single clock within a single room

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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

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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)

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Me: this is so dumb

Also me: busts out laughing

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Jokes on you, my oven has WiFi.

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Power cut off at my house while I was at work night before last. Got the notification of restoration bout an hour before quitting time

stebo

interesting theory, thx!

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Some kid in Hoboken is gonna set your house on fire with it.

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So many timers, so little time.

I don't even notice all the little clocks. I actually like clocks a lot, and I check them a lot, but not the ones in these appliances. I usually don't notice when they run fast or when we go in or out of DLS.

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Good thing you can only turn it on remotely under certain conditions

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None of my kitchen equipment has any sort of a clock on them.

Timers, yes. Clocks, no.

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My apartment complex also has ads inside elevator. Is it that bad?

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Sometimes one of my friends fixes mine when he's here. I appreciate it. It bothers him. I don't care.

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We gotta love the little blessings.

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So uh, what conditions. Like exactly? It's for my english class.

kratoz29

Yeah stopped bothering with setting up the hour manually for these things... Every rainy or windy season my electricity is quite erratic.

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My rice cooker is the cockroach of timekeeping. It was unplugged for almost a year and the clock was still on and accurate when I pulled it out of storage.

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While I was standing there in the kitchen, the smart TV started playing an old movie randomly, blasting the audio through all the smart speakers in the house. The Roomba hit me right in the ankle, just as the door to the stove fell open and the speakers yelled “Feed me Seymour!”
But I mean. It’s a Roomba, and the stove takes time to preheat, even if I had fallen in. The cat helped to blind the Roomba while I unplugged everything. Now I’m huddled in the dark, fighting against the cold, wondering if I should chance the thermostat.