With DST, everyone should have just re-set their watches.
How many of us type-A triathletes have their watches set EXACTLY?
How often to you check the time on your watch, and re-set if necessary?
I have an ‘atomic’ clock at home, I check nist.time.gov more often than I need to, and I like the fact that my Timex S + D automatically sets itself to the GPS time.
I have my watch set to the second at school, just two minutes faster than official school time. I like to know when the bell is going to ring so I can plan accordingly with my students. I also like to have it a bit fast because I’m just fast. Okay, not that fast, but maybe I’ll get fast.
Adam
Thast funny - I have my watch and lab clock set exactly five minutes fast. I like to think it gives me more time because I am always late and it gives me five minutes grace ater the initial panic
Nick
What day is it again?
I can’t understand why anyone would set any time piece incorrectly on purpose. I do enough math as it is in one day, I can’t imagine having to subtract 5 every time I look at my watch.
However, I used to set my alarm clock 9 minutes ahead so I could see what time it would go off again after I hit the snooze button.
I am having problems with my Ironman™ watch. It’s what I get for being a poser.
First problem: It’s got an analog and a digital display. After setting them both Sunday morning, I realized that they weren’t in sync with each other. That wouldn’t do. It was remarkably difficult to achieve synchronization.
After spending most of the day getting that done, I realized that I had actually set the stupid thing about five minutes slow. How, I don’t know. I’ve adjusted the watch on a near continual basis since then, and I still don’t have it nailed down. Although I am getting much quicker and syncing the digital and analog displays with each other.
I am using GPS for my timing source.
I don’t know why I’m caring so much that the watch is accurate, except that, in my house, time really is relative. My wife has some freakish system wherein every clock in the house is set fast, and *each clock is set to a different time. *The bedroom clock may be ahead by 15 minutes, while the bathroom clock is 10 minutes fast. The kitchen clock is, maybe, 9 minutes fast. Living room clock- different. Clock in the car- unique. It’s all part of her master plan.
tried that but didn’t work for me. I always used to be late by about 2minutes, so I set my clock 3minutes fast. Well, the fast clock makes me believe that I always have enough time. Now I wish I could show up only 2minutes late…
My wife does the same, but only for the bedroom clock. She sets it 15 minutes fast so that she thinks she has more time. We all know it’s set fast and end up sleeping that extra time. I still don’t get the point.
If you are calling any watch/clock a ‘time piece’ you have some serious issues.
Other then that I like to have my watch set up 2 minutes ahead. No particular reason other then the fact I don’t like being late to school/practice.
my work PC runs a daily task to synchronize with the atomic clock in Boulder, so I check my watch against it every day in the week. Weekends I get lazy and let it get as much as 3 seconds off…
“I can’t understand why anyone would set any time piece incorrectly on purpose.”
and then…
"However, I used to set my alarm clock 9 minutes ahead so I could see what time it would go off again after I hit the snooze button. "
LOL!
A nifty feature of the Timex GPS system is that, every time you turn on the GPS receiver, it updates your watch to within a hundreth of a second (the watch’s limit). So, I’m pretty spot-on most of the time.
In races I always start my watch between 2 min and 1 min early.". It always seems to help me during the race since I somehow forget this fact and since I don’t really know what the “buffer is”, it forces me to work a bit harder. A few years ago, at Boston I hit 3 hours with the finish line in sight and sprinted like crazy down Boyleston street. Final chip time was 2:59.52. I can only thank my little self generated buffer as I really did not know what my actual time was, although I had an idea that I was “close”.
My watch is a kinetic analog one, so it drifts a little as time goes by. It usually ends up out by 2-3 mintues after 2 months, so I reset it then. Other than that, I’m not that worried about it.
Okay I have to post because I think I get the prize. I have a watch that resets itself to the atomic clock in boulder thrice daily. It’s also solar so I got that goin’ for me.
My beloved Concord Impressario just went to Switzerland :^(. It kept good time until the last year. With all of the crap where I work, it probably just needed a good clean and lube. Otherwise, it keeps excellent time.
My Tag Heuer F1 (a cheap quartz watch) keeps the best time, along with my Polar Coach. But those two keep horrendous time when their batteries are dead.
why bother with a watch at all? The day comes and goes. It’s done when it’s done. Haven’t worn a watch other than to work out in three years. Of course I’m not bound by a clock in my job so no need.
I broke my left arm a few years ago and never wore one again. I was suprised at how liberating it was!
Consider yourself blessed. I HAVE to live by a clock in my work, both the hairdressing AND the carbon fibre fabricating. I have to time processes, whether we are talking the timing of hair colour or the pot life of a batch of goo, I mean epoxy.
So, I take great pride in fine time pieces, and loathe them when they don’t work.
Again- you are a lucky man.
I was at Kona Brew a couple years ago and the manager (a friend) was saying “Look at you Oahu guys, all with watches on your wrists. In Kona we have daytime activities and night time activities, no need for watches” I took mine off and missed the hell out of it for about a week. Now I run on Kona time, that is whatever time it is.
I work in surgery and know the importance of times, but there are plenty of clocks around when you need them. The only watch I have is my interval timer watch on my TT bike bars. G