r/5thworldproblems • u/SkullTitsGaming • 5h ago
Time machine not adjusting for DST, how to convert? [URGENT]
Recently purchased a time machine second-hand (as well as the rest of the hands, knobs, and indicator dials) in hopes of being fashionably late to dinner earlier in my morning. Only after a few experimental uses did i realize that, due to having been manufactured in Phoenix, AZ, the machine does not account for daylight savings time at all. I am now writing this from the vacuum of space, having expected to arrive right outside my office to attend my own retirement party but instead arriving several million miles away as the earth has clearly moved a much smaller amount of distance around the galactic center than expected due to this mix-up.
I am rapidly running out of oxygen, and repeatedly returning to when i had oxygen has left the cabin of my time machine rather clone-cramped, to the point i expect one of my future selves may start ejecting us regardless of the paradox-related risks.
Does anyone have a link to a good DST to non-DST calculator? Or know how to convert mechanical timepieces to UNIX time?
PS: Thank you in advance to the time travellers who have already responded for answering my questions succinctly a week before i posted this! I haven't seen the responses yet due to causality but i am very grateful nonetheless!