{"id":2219,"date":"2026-08-03T03:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:24:08","slug":"i-wanted-a-clock-that-never-needed-setting-things-escalated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2219","title":{"rendered":"I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted a clock that, annoyingly, didn&#8217;t seem to exist.<\/p>\n<p>Since childhood, my bedside clocks have been a series of red, seven-segment LED clock-radio specials from Walmart or Target. They are invariably cheap, simple, and long-lived\u2014but they require manual intervention at the start and end of Daylight Saving Time and whenever the power flickers. After a recent power flicker, as I found myself standing by the sideboard holding down &#8220;TIME&#8221; and mashing the &#8220;HOUR&#8221; button, frustration boiled over, and I thought to myself, &#8220;We&#8217;re a quarter of the way through the 21st century. There has to be a better way!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My perfect clock would be self-setting. It would offer auto-DST adjustment (or not, depending on how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/news\/time\/us-permanent-dst-2026.html\">this bill fares<\/a>!). It would manage drift and always show the exact sub-second time. It would show that time on a red seven-segment display\u2014not blue, not green, not yellow, and absolutely not white. And I shouldn&#8217;t have to install any privacy-destroying garbage apps to make it work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/07\/i-wanted-a-clock-that-never-needed-setting-things-escalated\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/07\/i-wanted-a-clock-that-never-needed-setting-things-escalated\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/07\/i-wanted-a-clock-that-never-needed-setting-things-escalated\/' target='_blank'>Read the original article on arstechnica.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted a clock that, annoyingly, didn&#8217;t seem to exist. Since childhood, my bedside clocks have been a series of red, seven-segment LED clock-radio specials from Walmart or Target. They are invariably cheap, simple, and long-lived\u2014but they require manual intervention at the start and end of Daylight Saving Time and whenever the power flickers. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}