Law that says that appliances with a clock feature MUST by law have an option to simply turn the clock display off so you don't need to set it.

The stove, dishwasher and toaster oven and kettle all want to be clocks too. It's creepy. Also my poor husband feels compelled to keep all such devices correctly set but *I* have to show him how to do it.

@futurebird a few jobs back, the office lunchroom had two (apparently) identical microwaves side-by-side that would simply not keep the same time; every so often I'd reset their clocks so that they showed the same time, and a few weeks later they'd be back apart by 2+ minutes.

The "I have two competing sources of truth for the time simultaneously in my field of view" disturbed me in ways I can't quite articulate.

@bruceiv @futurebird I once played D&D with a group that included one of the people who worked on the guts of GPS satellites - which are, at bottom, ridiculously accurate clocks.

No timepiece in her home could be relied upon, and they were all different. I don't know how she stood it.

Law that says that appliances with a clock feature MUST by law have an option to simply turn the clock display off so you don't need to set it.

The stove, dishwasher and toaster oven and kettle all want to be clocks too. It's creepy. Also my poor husband feels compelled to keep all such devices correctly set but *I* have to show him how to do it.

@futurebird *Kennel??* Why would you want a clock display on a kennel, or is there more this thing does than just hold the dog?? CC @TheZooLady