I waited until Sunday morning to set the clocks for Daylight Savings Time. The Mac running OS X 10.2.8 took care of itself, just need to synchronize with a time server on the net regularly. The next device was the Canon S110 camera. It actually keeps better time than most computers. I only need to make adjustments to the hour. Over three years, it hasn’t lost a minute. I remember reading a while back that putting accurate clock chips in computers would add a dollar or two to the advertised cost, which would be deadly to marketing efforts.
The toughest one to set was the digital stopwatch, requiring a sequence of pushing buttons in the appropriate order and holding them for different time periods. Long before I was diagnosed with mitochondrial myopathy, I found that battery powered mechanical wrist watches would stop within an hour of wearing them. Digital wrist watches were a bit better, would malfunction after a day. As they seemed to work OK for everyone else, I figured it was like body temperature, I was just different. So, since I can’t wear them on my wrist, I just get sports type stop watches. They used to come in handy measuring flow rates in the lab too.
Yesterday the daytime temperatures got over 70 F even near the lake. I went out in the morning and was able to photograph the pair of mallards who seem to be setting up housekeeping in Pere Marquette Park.
I left the window open and woke early this morning to the sounds of gulls interrupted when a garbage truck came down the alley and set off a car alarm. At 6:30 and 7:00 I could hear the train whistle from the Amtrak station. When it is quiet like this, I can hear the clock in city hall chime too.
