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submitted 4 days ago by MeThisGuy@feddit.nl to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

anyone else set timers to weird numbers?

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[-] Ziglin@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago
[-] ByteMe@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

That was my first thought

[-] jBoi@szmer.info 3 points 3 days ago

Yes. I have my alarm at exactly 6:18 - not one minute later or earlier.

[-] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 3 days ago

there are dozens of us!

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago

Absolutely, as a slight counter to my ADHD and laziness. I find it harder to say "let me sleep fifteen more minutes" when the timer or alarm isn't a round number.

[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 6 points 4 days ago

Depends what I'm timing and what you consider weird.

[-] los_chill@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago

Some time numbers just feel better. :35, :28 good. :24, :17, bad. I can't explain it. It's like a color or a sound.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I can't explain it. It's like a color or a sound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

[-] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 4 days ago

for me that is the exact other way around

[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

I try to set it to seldom used numbers. It’s part of my fight to remain human in a conforming world.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

set it to seldom used numbers

Good. You mustn't use up all the good numbers. The strange numbers will feel left out.

[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

0 is very overrated

[-] valgarf@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago
[-] salmoura@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 4 days ago

That's textbook psychopathy.

[-] Sumocat@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I set most of my timers using Siri and avoid 30, 40, 50, and 60 exactly because I can’t seem to emphasize “TY”in a way to distinguish it from “TEEN”. My wife needs to me to clarify those too, so it’s definitely a me problem, not a Siri problem. I instead go over or under a minute or two, depending on the task.

Yeah, i just pull the dial and let it settle where it settles. On my alarm clock my alarm will not go off if I set it to specific times like 7:30 so I usually do weird times in an attempt to get around that.

[-] justanotheruser4@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I set the minutes of my alarm clocks always on odd numbers

this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
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