I did mine last night without opening the book! (It is only a 2015 and this is only my ninth year changing, lol.)

Newer cars arevmore user-friendly. I don have issues with mymEscap or our Jeep.

But, yes, if yours in complicated, you deserveca medal!

I want one for changing the clock on my stove!

I'm just glad it's only 3 clocks nowadays, the rest reset automatically.

And I have to refer to the manual for my car as well - it's also a 2015 🙂

Can I get one for figuring out how to use the convection oven part of my multi-purpose oven? My son gave it to me and threw out the manual. I finally figured out you had to press the start button to lock in each setting, temp, cook time.

Our new-to-us car is more automatic, but on the old one I had to reset the clock more than twice a year. It gained about a minute per month for some reason, so when my family would start to complain I would reset it.

Mine is a 2018 it was correct when we left for church this morning. It's very independent!!

Kathsgrdn, you might be able to find the manual online.

I was thinking the same. If you have the make and model number, most appliances nowadays have downloadable manuals.

And I keep my car's clock set around 10 minutes fast on purpose - just to keep me on my toes. It also gains a minute or so, but that doesn't bother me 🙃

cindy, I actually did download it the other day from the Toshiba website. Took awhile to find the correct website and for the chat person to look it up. But, that was after I had already figured out the convection oven part of it.

The clock thats impossible to change is the thermostat on my heated bathroom floor. The buttons are miniscule. When you finally manage to push it, the numbers fly by. Ive learned not to count on it. The heat is either on in thewinter or off in the summer. No merit badge for me.

That reminds me, to change the clock on the thermostat!

We have NuHeat under our MBA floor, too. This is the first time I noticed it can be set for either tile or laminate floor. Happily, it was on 'tile'.

DH still needs the manual to reset the car's clock, and it's a 2005 (with 49K miles).

Fountain and garage door clocks don’t get changed at my house. They are too complicated and the exact time isn’t that important anyway.

And I keep my car's clock set around 10 minutes fast on purpose - just to keep me on my toes.

Years ago I had an idea for an invention that I still think was pretty brilliant but has lost its usefulness with cell phones and automatic clocks like our cable boxes having taken over: It was to be called the Approxiclock. A clock for your night stand that by tadomly having keeping faster and slower time would only be accurate within a preset margin of error so you’d only know about what time it is. Say your margin of error is 5 minutes and you set the alarm for 6am, when it went off you’d only the real time was somewhere between 5:55 and 6:05, so you couldn’t count on factoring in a few minutes to spare for snoozing.

Perhaps an app could be written for that, for an alarm that goes off at about 6am. Not quite the same impact as you just look at your phone, but at least you’d have to wake up enough to note the real time rather than just smack your phone to snooze while barely awake..

I think it's a good idea. The only clock in our house that needs adjusting is the clock radio. All others are "smart".

You just reminded me that since I didn't drive my car yesterday, I'll need to tend to that today. It is an easy fix but that doesn't mean I remember how to do it. (2017 car, purchased in summer of 2016 so probably 15 times already that I've done it......hopefully it comes back to me just how to do it. I'll try in a few minutes!

Ha - just saw this...

I did change the few that need manual changing before bed Saturday night....my convection oven, microwave, handful of watches and a couple of more ornamental clocks. I even managed the one in my car....up one hour is easy (back in Fall and I have to get the book out even though I've been driving that same car for years now).

I just realized yesterday I hadn't changed the clock next to my vanity sink. I'd gone back to the bedroom to change sheets, do a little straightening up and thought it was nearing 3:30. So how then when got to the laundry room had it become 5 PM and I didn't know what I was making yet for dinner! Duh.

It was bedtime when I remembered the timer inside the garage that turns the outside driveway lights on and off. I let it go. It takes a step stool, control is just out of my reach and hard wired to the wall, a flashlight, fingers of a midget and much patience to get it right. I'll do it later this morning now that they are off again. I'd let it go entirely but apparently before we bought this house very few of the outside lights were ever on and there are MANY. Several of the neighbors have commented on how they like seeing the house lighted at night, all night, so I continue to use them and gasp at my electric bill 😁

Fun2behere, your garage door has a clock?

Can I have a merit badge for taking my dishes to the kitchen?

I don't have any trouble changing my 5 clocks. My car is a 2019, all I have to do is tap the screen, and then push the arrow for which direction I want to change the time. My other car, that's just sitting in the garage, practically requires a manual to change the time. What I can never get it to do is: stop the display from scrolling. 🙄

@bpath, to be more precise, the garage door opener has a clock on its wall button. 🙂

The ones i hate to change are our coffee pot (I know how but the button does not respond well as it should and as i want it to) and our outdoor security lighting system which has to be done manually, even when we have had a power outage. We had just had a 2.5 hr outage Friday (very high winds), so I just went ahead and set the clocks on the light panel to DST when I changed them on Saturday. Everythhng else, including my new car is easy or automatic.

To be honest, it took me three days standing in front of the heat pump thermostat to reprogram it. I changed the time a million times, but could not get to the daily program. I think I have it done, but I still do not know what button I pushed to get there, lol.

ETA with original instructions in front of me. Buttons do several different functions depending on where you are and none are labeled.

Sherry, get the instructions to have for future use. Such changes are usually pretty simple but sometimes difficult to stumble upon without guidance. You'll likely be able to find what you need on the manufacturer's Product Support web section.

Thermostats with Wifi connectivity often change time automatically.

I don't get the reasoning behind intentionally setting a clock 10 minutes fast to never be late. If you can look at the clock and always be 10 minutes early, then you can do the same thing with the clock set correctly.

Those are great, MDLN - I've earned quite a few of them 😄

I keep my car's clock set ahead so I have to do a little math in my head - it keeps me on my toes, as I stated above. I vary it too - 8 minutes is an even better challenge than 10.

Sherry, I can remember doing that with the control to the heat pump in our former house. It had several settings - overnight, daytime, weekends and took a lot of concentration. It had back up batteries on the chance of a power failure. I had something like 35 seconds to change to batteries (about 8 double As) without losing all the settings. I learned to change batteries very quickly and efficiently 😁

Had to add this.

MDLN, those are great! I think I have earned all at one time or another.

Ah, but what about *demerits*, my Rosy Scenario friends?

The clock in my car is right six months of the year. That's close enough for me.

And then there are the days when I think I should have a merit badge just for getting out of bed in the morning.

Rusty

I was out of town when it was time to set the clocks ahead, and when I came home, I found that my husband didn't even remember that it was happening that weekend! He only realized it when he woke up at what he thought was 6:30 and, when he came into the den, he wondered why the DVR had a different time! He set his wristwatch, and he attempted to do the alarm clock, but failed miserably. He failed at the microwave and the stove, but to be fair, the stove isn't easy. I had told him not to touch the grandfather clock, because you have to let it chime at each quarter hour, but for some reason he decided to do it anyway. Thank goodness he didn't wreck it! Clearly, I do too much around here. I'd better not die anytime soon!