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Apple Watch allows chronically late users to fool themselves with manually adjusted time


When unveiling the Apple Watch, Apple heavily touted the fact that the device is an incredibly precise timekeeper. As the Watch has rolled out to retail stores we’ve slowly been finding a few features buried within Settings, including one that relates to the accuracy of the time. In Watch OS, Apple has included the ability to manually adjust the time displayed on the watch face of your device.

Apple notes, however, that only the information displayed on your clock face is affected by adjusting the time via this setting. All notifications and alerts will still come in at the correct time. With this feature, users are simply moving displayed time ahead of the actual time in one minute intervals.

It’s a common practice among people who have a problem being on time to events to manually move their clock forward by a few minutes. Doing this allows for them to hopefully show up at the correct time by essentially fooling themselves into thinking it’s later than it actually is.

The Apple Watch went up for pre-order today, with all models selling out within 6 hours. Ship times for many models are at 4-6 weeks, while various Sport models show a June arrival date and the Edition shows an August arrival.

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Comments

  1. Jamie Gilder - 10 years ago

    ha! Such a cheeky feature! I like it!

  2. AeronPeryton - 10 years ago

    Apple: Quietly being more thoughtful, since 1976.

  3. r00fus1 - 10 years ago

    Interesting – is the notifications at accurate time vs. timepiece at adjusted time deliberate? Sounds like they should both be adjusted the same…

    • Jordan Kahn - 10 years ago

      Either you just blew my mind or that would mean that notifications come before they are even sent? Or do they come late? Love, Jordan.

  4. gshenaut - 10 years ago

    I want to be able to display accurate solar time according to my current location. (Perhaps alongside conventional time.) It would be really interesting for noon actually to be noon, etc.

    • vpndev - 10 years ago

      There’s probably an app for that. NavClock (on iPhone) is close but not quite it.

  5. vandy75 - 10 years ago

    I set every clock and watch ahead by 10 minutes. I LOVE this feature

  6. moofer1972 - 10 years ago

    To me, just as useless as a snooze button, but to my wife, it’ll be a killer feature.

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