What time is it?

[nightengalesknd]

As of this posting it is:

8:24 according to my television, which I believe is in turn according to my internet cable provider
8:24 according to my computer
8:34 according to my cellular phone
8:20 according to my insulin pump
7:08 according to my glucometer, which evidently I never advised of daylight savings time
8:19 according to my continuous glucose sensor
8:22 according to my analog wrist-watch
1:42 according to an analog clock on my wall which my grandfather made over a decade ago
11:48 according to the clock over my stove, which I never bothered to reset after a power loss because, see above

LJ says it is 20:24:59
Google tells me it is 8:23

I thought that, 2014 being 2014, at least some of these items would get their information from a reliable source and I could then reset the others off those items. Right now, I'm not sure who to believe. I believe they were all set for the same time as of the spring daylight savings time change. All the ones I actually use for confirmation of the time, anyway, which are pretty much the computer and TV ones to tell me when TV shows start, and the diabetes control ones for documenting times related to diabetes control.

The extreme frivolous nature of this post should not be considered either a confirmation or a denial of any other more serious concerns in my life at the moment, but should be considered a confirmation I may or may not wish to discuss any of them.

Comments

[songblaze.livejournal.com]

If you want something official, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a page that tells you how to make your computer update its clock based on NIST readings. You can find it here: http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/its.cfm NIST is one of the 2 US sources that contribute to UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, which is named in French, so should actually be Temps Universal Coordonné), so it's probably the best official US time source you can easily get a hold of. The US Naval Observatory, the other US source, isn't as easy to find a way to automatically update your computer's clock - looks like they want you to add on a program rather than having it on your standard display clock.

Hope that helps?

[nightengalesknd.livejournal.com]

I'm happy with Google's answer to "what time is it" as official. Heck, I'd be happy with my TV's time as official. I think my bigger problem is that all these things started with the same time and then. . . diverged. I just reset my phone to match Google, my TV and my computer and I guess we'll see if it stays on track or gets 10 minutes ahead again. And later I'll try to reset all my diabetes supplies to match, since they are what I tend to use when not in front of my computer. I'm not completely clear why I even continue to wear an analog wristwatch besides habit, although it seems to keep better time than some of these other items.

[songblaze.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhhh...gotcha!

Yeah, it annoys me when things I set to the same time don't stay together. Or things that I deliberately set slightly divergent don't stay the same distance apart. My alarm clock and the clock in my car are both set a few minutes fast, it helps keep me on time. If I stop and think about it, I know that they're a few minutes apart, but in my day to day, I tend not to.

Somehow, the electronic stuff bothers me more when it diverges than analog stuff. I guess I expect the set up of tension and gears (or battery and gears, or whatever) to be imperfect, but if it's electric I expect it to behave better. Never mind that I am aware that the electric stuff gets divergent because of minor fluctuations in available power vs the amount of power the system was designed to use (at least, that's my understanding of why electronics don't keep better time).

[glynhogen.livejournal.com]

Frivolity is an excellent way to engage, or not, with matters of greater import.

[glynhogen.livejournal.com]

Although, really, the nature of time is a fairly important issue for philosophy, physics, and perhaps even fields that do not begin with "ph."

[nightengalesknd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but luckily I don't involve myself in any of those fields.

Although doing my best to start PHysician visits on time is important to me. I usually use the time on my work computer to judge that one. Come to think of it, why don't we call what physicians do, "physics"?

An actor acts. A teacher teaches. A biologist does biology and a chemist, chemistry. But a physician practices medicine and a doctor doesn't doctle.

[nightengalesknd.livejournal.com]

My thought exactly!