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Not a GM employee but I think the number of people who mess with their clock is bigger than we think.

People are weird. They set their clock five minutes ahead or whatever.

I also think an optional cellular/GPS based time update would be nice though.

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> People are weird. They set their clock five minutes ahead or whatever.

Back in uni days I would set my bedside alarm clock 10 minutes faster. No joke it almost never failed to fool my groggy morning brain on days I hit snooze one too many times. "Oh crap I'm going to be late!" toss clothes on, run to kitchen for snack only to see that I've got another 10 minutes. whew. Crazy I know, but it worked. I also think I did similar with my cars clock by setting it faster when I first started driving to work. Now I smoke a little weed before bed, sleep like a baby and wake up much easier.

This is true but you could allow the user to set an offset.

And now you’ve added 2 configuration options that need to be tested, documented, and supported for probably 20 Of your customers

This is exactly the hidden complexity that HN users love to add to products that adds no real value and sells no extra product

2? It’s pulling time from gps so it’s 1 config option for time offset, defaulting to 0.

Anyways, android and iOS and Mac and windows and etc all have the ability to fetch time or use gps to set time with a user override to do their own tricks. We all woke up today so I think the world survived.

There’s also daylight savings time.

This is the approach that the Apple Watch engineers used, and it remains the only device I've seen with this option.

Does anyone here with an Apple Watch use the time offset feature?

Yes. I've set my clocks a few minutes ahead for years, and I do the same on my Watch. It's nice to have, but the helpful illusion is not entirely maintained: it is only the main watch faces that display the time with offset. There are other views where the current time is shown incidentally, and it is the actual, non-offset, time.

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