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Re: Way Back When

From Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: Way Back When
Date 2018-11-06 08:42 +1300
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <prq6fk$1vng$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink)
References <021120181121292358%star@sky.net> <51W5y0sPNk52-pn2-u7sHhJvBhewG@localhost>

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On 2018-11-05 19:07:41 +0000, John Varela said:
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 05:13:45 UTC, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
> wrote:
>> On 2018-11-05 03:13:18 +0000, John Varela said:
>>> On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 21:41:15 UTC, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>> In article <51W5y0sPNk52-pn2-6Fd5ZtZ5ez1z@localhost>, John Varela
>>>> <newlamps@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Bought a new car recently? Mine came with 780 semi-mouse print pages
>>>>>> spread among 5 volumes.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Good effin' luck trying to find how to turn dozens of electronic
>>>>>> features on, off or calibrate them; when to change the oil; how to
>>>>>> change the clock tor daylight saving; program the radio or link up your
>>>>>> phone, etc., etc....
>>>>> 
>>>>> Subaru presents one manual for each model.  It covers every trim
>>>>> line and optional feature.  For something as simple as resetting the
>>>>> clock there will be instructions for several different versions,
>>>>> each qualified "(if equipped)".  We go off of Daylight Savings Time
>>>>> tomorrow morning, and I am going to have to look it up yet again.
>>>> 
>>>> that's incredibly poorly design.
>>> 
>>> Sure enough, I had to look it up again in the manual.  The index has
>>> an entry for "clock" so I went to page 3-35 as instructed.  It turns
>>> out that the instructions for this car are described under the
>>> multi-function display, on page 3-49.
>> 
>> Ahhh, the joys of technology for the sake of it.
>> 
>> The digital clock on my car is in the middle of the driver's instrument
>> cluster (between the speedo and rev counter dials. To change it you
>> simply reach through the steering wheel to turn a small knob clockwise
>> or counter-clockwise to adjust it, keep holding it in that direction
>> and the time ticks up / down by 1 minute until you let go.  :-)  I
>> don't think the car's radio / cassette player (yes a cassette tape
>> system) has a clock - it displays the radio frequency.
>> 
>> I'm not sure if my mother's much newer car adjusted the time itself or
>> if she had to do it via the touchscreen menu system of her car's
>> infotainment screen.
> 
> The Subaru is my wife's car and if she had to reset the clock
> herself it would never happen.  This year I wised up and annotated
> the index with the desired page number and also dog-eared that page.
> 
> My car is similar to yours, in having a real clock, not one built
> into a multi-function display.  My clock has an analog dial placed
> smack in the middle of the dashboard, with two buttons: one to
> advance the hands and one to reverse them.

I dislike analogue clocks, even worse when they're in a car ... you 
meant to be driving, not spending "10 minutes" trying to figure out 
where the big hand and little hand are pointing. Digital clocks are 
much easier and quicker to read.  :-)


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                Re: [OT] Re: Way Back When nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 00:33 -0400
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