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No it doesn't. It simply requires a reminder. On Jan 1, change the batteries. On June 1, change the batteries.

Of if you live in a majority of the US, when you change the clocks, change the batteries.

Neither of these schedules will sneak up on you. If you don't change them and it wakes you, it's your own fault.

Sorry to sound snarky, but it's not _that_ complicated.

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I don't have any clocks that need manual changing. Haven't for years. And I rarely know what the date is unless some external stimuli makes me check. It's just not relevant to my daily life.

Your experience is not mine, and mine is not yours. Why is it so offensive that someone has tried to make my life better? Is it just jealousy that they didn't work on one of your problems?

Never said anything was offensive, I was merely pointing out examples of ways that one could remind themselves to change the batteries.

However if you insist on focusing one a singular viewpoint then I will remove myself from the conversation.

Is your microwave networked or something? That is not typical.

I'm not even really conscious of microwave clocks still being a thing. I guess my microwave probably has a clock, dunno why I'd ever set or use it, though.

I just checked, apparently my stove has a clock, too. It's not set to anything resembling the current time.

Neither of these appliances are things I would ever look at when I want to know what time it is, so I just file them under things that are not clocks.

My clocks no longer require manual changing, and those that do I end up replacing... I haven't been sure when daylights saving time starts/stops for a while now and have been caught off guard when I end up being early at work because my body naturally woke me up at a certain time.

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