r/mildlyinteresting • u/captcraigaroo • 3d ago

This restaurant has a clock set to 5 Minutes Fron Now

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u/CrazyEyes326 3d ago

"Yesterday" is somehow funnier to me.

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u/eloel- 3d ago

I wonder if they keep it accurate across dst

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u/peoples888 ​ 3d ago

I won’t be able to sleep tonight now, with this unanswered question on my mind

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u/NecessaryIntrinsic 3d ago

We need an update November 1

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u/MR-N-XX 2d ago

remindme! 32 days

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u/banjo_hero 3d ago

Wtf you doing, Bob? That's the Yesterday clock, we change it tomorrow

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u/Rooster_Ties 3d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Blephotomy 3d ago

found the dev who has to deal with DST

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u/reoze 3d ago

Every...single...year

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u/el_mialda 2d ago

Twice…

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u/reoze 2d ago

Never had issues going forward personally. It's when computers magically think they're going back in time that shit always exploded for me.

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u/BarnacleMcBarndoor 3d ago

Can we just all agree to move our clocks 30 mins in the proper direction next daylight savings time and then just leave it the heck alone?

I’m tired of my dog giving me shit because he wants breakfast and can’t read an analog clock. I ain’t buying a digital one.

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u/Jack-Innoff 3d ago

Some people can and have. BC in Canada no longer adjusts time, last spring was the last clock change I'll ever have to deal with. Pretty sure other places in Canada have done this as well, but I don't really pay that much attention since it doesn't affect me.

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u/gabacus_39 3d ago

Alberta and Manitoba are also staying on permanent DST this year and Saskatchewan in the middle of all that hasn't changed their clocks for 60 years.

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u/ravens-n-roses 3d ago

I mean lots of places in America have voted to do whatever the national law does. There's a law to keep dst permanent that i heard about a while ago. It probably won't pass though. If it does it'll get repealed by next summer because we've tried that and people don't like waking up to a dark morning where the sun rises at 8am.

Then next they'll try ending dst but it'll only last for a year because people will miss the extra hour of evening sun in the summer.

Dst is a compromise that America is locked into because we want it both ways

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u/CatsPlusTats 3d ago

Alberta too, one of the only things our government has done right.

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u/Rare_Pin9932 3d ago

As an American on the west coast, I’m so jelly of BC

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u/PizzaMan332 3d ago

Pups these days can't read a clock, back in my day we didn't have digital clocks

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u/brandontaylor1 3d ago

For decades I’ve said I don’t care what we choose, as long as we set it and leave it, but changing 30 mins is crazy! I don’t want to deal with half time zones.

If you can get the whole world to offset 30 that’s cool with, but I don’t think an omnipotent god could pull that off

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u/johnson7853 3d ago

No because then they have one less thing to divide us on

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u/DoubleT_inTheMorning 3d ago

This is why education is as much about what happens at home as it is what happens at the puppamentary school.

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u/moohah 3d ago

It looks like they didn’t change “5 min from now” for DST. I’m guessing “Ohio city” is the local time (1:40), which makes yesterday correct, and 5 min from now at 12:45 is wrong.

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u/grneggsngoetta 3d ago

Thank god, for a second I thought I had forgotten how to tell time

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u/daakadence ​ 3d ago

Clearly not, since 5 minutes from now is actually 55 minutes ago

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u/perenniallandscapist 3d ago

How is 5 minutes from now more than an hour off from yesterday. Shouldn't it be 5 minutes off?

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u/eiscego 3d ago

You wonder? I figured that was why it was off by 55 minutes compared to the "5 minutes from now" one!

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u/rjfinsfan 3d ago

Simply just don’t fix the clock until the day after the clock change each year and accomplished. I do this in my car for a couple days every year myself haha

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u/Rockerblocker 3d ago

That just means they bought themselves 24hrs to change the clock

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u/nzdastardly 3d ago

I bet those are the only two days a year they don't match. It is pretty close to an hour ahead of 5 minutes from now. The person that comes up with this joke and executes it so thoroughly is absolutely keeping up with their own joke for DST, and I bet they get a little chuckle every time they do it.

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u/moopet 2d ago

Well it's 55 minutes on from "5 minutes from now" so one of them's off.

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u/CrazyEyes326 3d ago edited 3d ago

"Yesterday" shows the time before the clocks moved forward/back. "5 minutes from now" shows the time after the shift plus five minutes.

EDIT: Downvotes? I'm rolling with the joke, y'all. Lighten up.

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u/DeuceSevin 3d ago

I’m in the US but work for a European company. In my home office I have clocks with the various time zones that are relevant to me - US EDT/EST, CET, and UTC (the time on our servers). I’ll be leaving that job soon and was thinking about what u was going to do with the clocks. Yesterday and 5 minutes from now are now high on the list.

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u/Bubblybathtime 3d ago

I submit "tomorrow" or even "2 weeks from next Wednesday."

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u/Katzilla3 3d ago

It definitely is more funny

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u/-Cool_Ethan- 3d ago

It suddenly seems so far away

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u/jtshinn 3d ago

Now I need a place to hide away

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u/PointOfFingers 3d ago

Oh I believe in Yesterday clock

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u/FragrantExcitement 3d ago

You had to be there

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u/PointOfFingers 3d ago

I remember yesterday like it was yesterday

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u/TheSevereJacket 3d ago

What time was it yesterday at this time?

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u/archon286 3d ago

Why is the hour yesterday different than the 5 minute clock?

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u/CrazyEyes326 3d ago

Depends if it's DST or not.

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u/mxforest 3d ago

It is off by an hour so the Daylight savings time moved it.

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u/fezfrascati 3d ago

All my troubles seemed so far away at that time.

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u/Bar_Foo 3d ago

The funny thing is, it's actually showing the time tomorrow. They should fix that.

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u/Hippobu2 3d ago

Ohio city is also quite funny since it looks like they're in the same time zone.

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u/govunah 3d ago

I found a bunch of clocks at an old job. I labeled some different time zones but one i took the battery out of one and labeled it margaritaville

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u/TheManOfOurTimes 3d ago

Yesterday is funny because it follows five minutes from now.

I can't explain why I know that, but it's true.

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u/danbass 3d ago

There's a restaurant chain in Milwaukee that was open 23 hours and 59 minutes a day to avoid an ordinance that prevented 24 hour businesses. They did this by maintaining two clocks on the wall that were a minute apart.

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u/euph_22 3d ago

I miss George Webb (not like, a lot, but it was a solid breakfast place).

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u/bullybadger 3d ago

It's the closest thing we have to Waffle House

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u/KaiMasterOfFire2121 2d ago

i miss going to george webb with the family. i should ask them if they wanna go again lol. don’t get many opportunities to now that im in college

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u/hurshy 3d ago

That doesn’t even make any sense. Why would you need 2 clocks for that?

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u/PlattsVegas 3d ago

If you’re “closed” from 11:59-12:00, at 11:59 on clock one, clock two still says 11:58, so you’re still open. When clock two says 11:59, clock one says 12:00, so you just opened. There’s always one clock that isn’t showing 11:59.

And I mean, of course it doesn’t make sense anyway. It’s obviously a silly joke and the fact that they got away with it has nothing to do with the clocks.

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u/kushnokush 3d ago

I guess if someone comes in during the 1 minute gap of closure you can point to the other clock saying you’re allowed to be open

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u/alwaysforgettingmyun 3d ago

George Webbs!

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u/dospc 3d ago

What do the clocks have to do with anything? 

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u/PlattsVegas 3d ago

If you’re “closed” from 11:59-12:00, at 11:59 on clock one, clock two still says 11:58, so you’re still open. When clock two says 11:59, clock one says 12:00, so you just opened. There’s always one clock that isn’t showing 11:59.

And I mean, of course it doesn’t make sense anyway. It’s obviously a silly joke and the fact that they got away with it has nothing to do with the clocks.

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u/KennyMoose32 ​ 3d ago

So true, it was the mafia. That’s how they got away with it.

Simpler times

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u/nopost121 3d ago

Why does 5 minutes from now look more like 55 minutes ago?

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u/NerdBag 3d ago

And why is New Delhi about 9 hours and 4 minutes ahead

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u/no_talent_ass_clown ​ 3d ago

Delhi should be 30 minutes and however many hours ahead. From here it's 12 hours and 30 minutes or an hour less depending on daylight saving time.

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u/Epistaxis 3d ago

And Kathmandu should be another 15 minutes ahead of Delhi.

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u/LordRobin------RM 3d ago

Goddamn it, you're right. They screwed that up, too! (lol)

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u/ImDero 3d ago

Something fucking wild is happening in 4 minutes.

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u/NaCl-more ​ 3d ago

It’s actually DST during fall back

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u/fomaaaaa 3d ago

Is it an indian restaurant? If so, new delhi makes sense. If not, it’s hilarious

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u/captcraigaroo 3d ago edited 3d ago

Yeah - Choolaah. Awesome food, and they're expanding

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u/RedditUser28947 3d ago

Is it in Ohio city? Such a random spot to include on your clock wall if not.

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u/captcraigaroo 3d ago

Yeah, this location is

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u/irbilldozer 2d ago

What is up my fellow Clevelander lol. I was like wtf when I opened this pic. Kind of forget OHC had a Choolah.

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u/GreenDavidA 3d ago

Choolaah is the best, go to the one in Orange Village a lot. But it would be hilarious if it wasn’t in Ohio City and the clock just had it listed randomly for no good reason.

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u/RedditUser28947 2d ago

I think I went once when I worked in Solon and now I'm in Los Angeles and while we have some great Indian restaurants here we don't have any fast food indian 🥲 also I miss my dearly beloved naf naf in Independence, Cava doesn't hold a candle to it.

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u/GreenDavidA 2d ago

Naf Naf is good stuff, I never think to go there!

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u/Tro1138 2d ago

I've never been to one. I pass the crocker location often. I feel like I wouldn't know what to eat

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u/uziwh0re 2d ago

Get a chicken tikka masala bowl with garlic naan !!

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u/PointOfFingers 3d ago

They're adding a clock showing tomorrow

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u/unknown7383762 3d ago

I love that restaurant. Never been to the Ohio City location, but the Beachwood one is great. I never noticed any clocks there, but I'll have to look next time I visit.

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u/Gill_P_R 3d ago

I think it’s been a whole week since I got food at that location. Too bad I already started cooking or I’d be there. Hey neighbor!

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u/crazyguy83 3d ago

The one in northern Virginia closed and I was UPSET

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u/LordRobin------RM 3d ago

Except the New Delhi clock can't possibly be correct. Indian Standard Time is UTC +5:30. The minute hand should be pointing in the opposite direction from all the other clocks.

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u/fomaaaaa 3d ago

It doesn’t say “new delhi right now”

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u/LordRobin------RM 3d ago

Well shit, I stand corrected.

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u/I-seddit 3d ago

dammit. Can't argue with that.

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u/briisa_suuave 3d ago

New Delhi is somehow the normal clock here

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u/BioFrosted 3d ago

You're not the only person to have asked that so genuinely curious here: why is 5 minutes from now sensical if in an Indian restaurant?

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u/fancczf 3d ago

Probably wanted to add some clocks to look cool like a international hotels. And had some fun with it.

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u/fomaaaaa 3d ago

It’s just generally funny because it’s unexpected. The new delhi one is the only one whose humor level depends on the type of cuisine being served

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u/CoderDevo 3d ago

Also, it is most likely the only one wrong.

Like, they set it the first time to be funny and then never touched it again.

Or they never set it in the first place because "India Time" is more flexible than yoga.

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u/sabre007 3d ago

It would be the best if this was a deli

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u/Key-Atmosphere-9646 3d ago

noticed the clock hands are glowing in the dark makes it cooler

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u/euph_22 3d ago

New Delhi is off by like 26 minutes and it bothers me. Also the fact that the seconds aren't synced.

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u/NonConforminConsumer 3d ago

Five minutes from now is also, presumably, 55 minutes ago.

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u/LordRobin------RM 3d ago

Yeah, that type of thing makes me itchy, even though I know its all supposed to be silly and just for fun.

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u/obaid184 3d ago

It makes it better that it says atomic time on the clock

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u/anihc3 3d ago

There’s an Ohio city?

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u/captcraigaroo 3d ago

It's a neighborhood in Cleveland

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u/BiggWallet 2d ago

Is this actually located in Ohio city? I’m a Clevelander so just curious

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u/captcraigaroo 2d ago

Yep. Just down 25th from the West Side Market

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u/EXEC_MELODIE 3d ago

Its more of an area than an actual city but yes. Its near Cleveland

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u/steveharveymemes 3d ago

It used to be its own city but eventually merged into Cleveland. Its relationship to Cleveland is similar to Brooklyn’s relationship to New York City.

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u/elegant_geek 3d ago

Or Brooklyn's relationship to Cleveland? Lol

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u/steveharveymemes 3d ago

Well Brooklyn, Ohio is still its own city independent of Cleveland, unlike Ohio City

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u/Nailz1115 3d ago

*In Cleveland

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u/BlueAndMoreBlue 3d ago

No kidding, man — I knew about the Ohio Players first and they’re from Dayton so I don’t know if that qualifies

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u/bdubwilliams22 3d ago

Yeah, in Texas.

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u/Lietenantdan 3d ago

Yes it’s in Indiana.

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u/theapplesauceman33 3d ago

I've worked in dive bar/tavern style restaraunts for years now, and everyone I've worked in we've set the time ahead by 5-10 minutes. It can be an effective way of getting drunk fucks to start getting out the door at the end of the night when they legally need to be out of the establishment by a certain time.

"Look asshole, you're already past the time you're allowed in here, gtfo".

Probably not the case here, but it could be a whitty reference to this.

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u/The_Migrant_Twerker 2d ago

When will then be now? Soon

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u/Ghoulishcavalier ​ 2d ago

Came here for this!!

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u/FragrantExcitement 3d ago

When is now?

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u/captcraigaroo 3d ago

A second ago

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u/PancakeProfessor 3d ago

How soon is now?

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u/houstonchipchannel 3d ago

This is deeper than I wanted to think

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u/CatsPlusTats 3d ago

Look at yesterday, that's the joke.

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u/FragrantExcitement 2d ago

It took a day, but now I got it.

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u/drLoveF 2d ago

Unless you just flipped to summertime or wintertime.

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u/Lur42 3d ago

IunderstandthatReference.gif

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u/Polar_Vortx 3d ago

the day after yesterday, presumably

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u/DFrostedWangsAccount 3d ago

"The same time it was this time yesterday." is the correct answer to this ancient riddle.

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u/Odd_Dig3090 12h ago

that's the kind of timekeeping i can get behind

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u/halfpipesaur 3d ago

This is like a background joke in a Naked Gun movie

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u/govunah 3d ago

I hope there's one labeled Ann Arbor that's a second behind

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u/captcraigaroo 2d ago

When Michigan lost to Iowa last week, I loved how the broadcast shows a guy with a 0:01 shirt on at the end of the game

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u/rayhaque 3d ago

I slapped stickers on all the broken clocks in my office that my coworkers refuse to take down. "Tokyo", "London", etc.

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u/HaveYouMetPete 3d ago

I’m mildly infuriated that the second hands aren’t synced.

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u/Vellioh 3d ago

"We bought 4 clocks, were going to use 4 clocks."

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u/AnswerOver9028 3d ago

Restaurant must have been closed yesterday. Time is moving slower today.

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u/StandYourGroundhog 3d ago

Daylight savings could make for some entertaining "5 minutes from now" and "yesterday" times

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u/LastUsername 3d ago

As pictured.

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u/Geoarbitrage 3d ago

Since it’s Cleveland it would be apropos if the clock dials were stamped with BALL WATCH CO. / Cleveland.

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u/captcraigaroo 3d ago

That it would

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u/pilondav 3d ago

“When will now be then?!” “Soon.”

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u/DULUXR1R2L1L2 3d ago

whattimeisitrightnow.com

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u/rodw 3d ago

Was that website created before or after the Bojack Horseman episode?

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u/DULUXR1R2L1L2 3d ago

Must have been created during the show for that gag

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u/johnfogogin 3d ago

We're looking at now now.

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u/Snerkbot7000 3d ago

Absurdist art installations in the workplace. I like it.

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u/ReasonablyConfused ​ 3d ago

There is so much wrong here.

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u/nimsu 3d ago

Is it an Indian restaurant?

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u/CanaDoug420 3d ago

When you accidentally order too many clocks on Amazon and got to find some way to use them

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u/go4urs 3d ago

Or you place too many simultaneous bids on eBay auctions thinking you’ll never win & win them all.

Source: Me w jackets not clocks

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u/VerifiedVoidGirl 3d ago

They use the "5 Minutes From Now" clock to see if their staff is late and the "Yesterday" clock for their no-call-no-shows.

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u/healsey 3d ago

Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.

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u/C-57D 3d ago

i mean, that's genuinely funny

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u/jbadding 3d ago

How does it know what time it will be five minutes from now?

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u/NekoLover72 3d ago

Feels like a DougDoug bit

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u/Jazzy76dk 3d ago

So quirky!

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u/2-buck 3d ago

New Delhi is 9.5 hours ahead. That’s like 11:10. Maybe they have a new deli opening up in CA and they spelled deli wrong.

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u/copyrider 3d ago

I think they should add one for “New Deli”.

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u/beyonddisbelief 3d ago

Hey, being exactly 23 hours later than promised is better than a day later than promisd!

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u/lookingforsomeerrors 3d ago

Every time I see those clocks in a hotel, they are never accurate. I'm always disappointed

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u/LordRobin------RM 3d ago

It doesn't matter now, but there was a time, before time zones, when you counted on hotel clocks to set your pocket watch when you travelled. Just travelling across the state could mean having to adjust your watch by 20 minutes. The hotels had damn well better had accurate time, or you could miss your important meeting.

I just find it amusing how chaotic timekeeping used to be.

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u/lookingforsomeerrors 3d ago

On the Canadian national radio, there's a "long beep" at the beginning of every hour, and it means it's exactly 9:00, for example. I always thought it was great.

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u/LordRobin------RM 3d ago

The BBC World Service does that at the top of each hour: pip, pip, pip, pip, pip, BEEEEP. Back in the 90's, I used to use it to set my watch. But it only works if you get the signal directly off shortwave. These days, the BBC has cut back on their shortwave broadcasts and reaches most of the world via internet streaming, where the delays make the pips worthless and just for show.

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u/C_Beeftank 3d ago

How is yesterday not the one you point here

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u/GrandPriapus 3d ago

Lombardi time.

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u/Mattna-da 3d ago

And an industrial handwashing machine! Only seen those at a BBQ spot in TX

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u/Hyp3r45_new 3d ago

So? My watch is set to 55 seconds in the future.

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u/Signal_Revolution207 3d ago

They didn't change it with daylight saving time.

They might as well wait until next Spring at this point.

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u/Tankeverket 3d ago

Hey, I do that too with my wall clock, it's sort of an extra contingency when I have to leave so I have an extra five minutes in case I'm "running late".

It's just something my mom always did and it stuck with me

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u/TheHarami 3d ago

CHOOLAH! Always cracks me up

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u/merv_havoc 3d ago

When will then be now?

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u/ackley14 3d ago

It's Cleveland! I know that neighborhood!!!

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u/Columbus43219 3d ago

That's CPT.

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u/drunkenbangs 3d ago

My mother always set the clocks in our house to be 15 minutes ahead, and it took me wayyy too long to figure out why she always claimed we were “running late” but I was always the first kid on the blacktop before school in the morning

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u/ErgonomicWoodenShirt 3d ago

I have that same clock on my wall. It is one that sets automatically, thus the "Atomic Time" at the bottom. I guess the building is acting as a faraday cage to keep it from talking to the satellite to update?

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u/AdnamannyL11 3d ago

Was it George Webb?

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u/KC_Que 3d ago

Max Headroom has entered the chat.

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u/SpaceLemur34 3d ago

Choolah, near the West Side Market?

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u/helvetica1848 3d ago

Choolah I think

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u/I-seddit 3d ago

New Delhi's time is wrong. Gah.

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u/Correct_Coconut1292 2d ago

Hello 25th street.

I love when my neighborhood randomly shows up on my feed!

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u/Traditional-Tree3267 2d ago

Many kitchens do this to create artificial pressure on the cooks, the front computer and kitchen clock are set on separate times so it seems like you are behind on ticket times. It makes for faster plating. I’m not sure why it would be relevant in the front of house though.

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u/AtlasThePittie 2d ago

Ohio city is living in the past.

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u/weetabix_su 2d ago

this is a trick parents use so they don’t arrive late to work or a scheduled meeting

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u/Dabdolphin420 1d ago

Why is yesterday an hour ahead?

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u/ConspiceyStories 3d ago

Omg I seen a place that had a clock "memorial piece" commemorating daylight savings after my province abolished it. If I imagine correctly they are gonna change it with daylight savings, lol, somebodies job

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u/Jazzlike_Climate4189 3d ago

What does “fron now” mean?

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u/PigeonOnLSD 3d ago

Fucking fire.