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Pro tip: Tracking when my watch gains time solved a creepy repeat day
My digital watch would jump ahead exactly 23 minutes every Tuesday at 3 PM, making me think I was reliving the same hour. I started noting the exact second it happened and what I was doing, which was always while walking past the same old radio tower. Turns out, strong EM interference from the tower was messing with the watch's circuit. I moved my route away from that spot, and the time glitches stopped completely.
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thompson.abby7mo ago
Whoa, that's such a specific glitch! It makes me wonder, how strong would that EM field have to be to only affect the watch's internal clock and nothing else? Like, did your phone ever act up there, or did you notice any weird static on a car radio when you passed by? I'm trying to picture the exact kind of old tech in that tower that could throw off a digital signal so precisely.
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umab357mo ago
Honestly seems like a stretch to blame a tower. Watches can just glitch sometimes, especially cheaper ones. My old fitness tracker would lose an hour if I left it in the car on a hot day. Could be a bad battery or just a random software hiccup, nothing spooky about it.
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