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Interesting Feature

I'm not the biggest fan of Daylight Saving Time. For one, I get up really early to begin with, so it's not like it does me any good to have sunrise be off by an hour. There are pretty good odds that I'm going to get up when it's dark no matter what the clock says. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly to me, it doesn't really seem to work (as a quick example, see the last item on the History Channel's article). Basically, we spend all this effort to try to get a benefit, but it doesn't seem to materialize. So why bother?

Regardless of how I feel about it, though, that's how everyone does things where I live. It's not like I can wage a one-man boycott of Daylight Saving Time. I will inevitably have to meet with someone, either for work or for pleasure, and bad things would happen if we had two different ideas of when 10AM was. Basically, I have to play along because time is one of those things that everyone relies on.

So, when it was the appointed weekend to change the clocks in November, I made sure to change all of the clocks. Most of them actually required no effort, since they just updated themselves. These days, laptops and cell phones more or less take care of Daylight Saving themselves. On the other hand, we still have certain appliances like alarm clocks, microwaves, and stoves that require manual intervention (we don't have IoT versions of any of these devices).

I'm not super familiar with the stove, however, so it took a bit of futzing to try to change the time. In doing so, I ended up cycling through the various settings. That's when I stumbled upon this:
I did a double-take when I saw this
Yes, that says, "Sabbath," as in the Hebrew word tinged with all sorts of religious connotations. It actually took me a second to process the fact that I saw that word on the display. I mean, it's not like you're expecting to see that there. If it randomly said, "lunch box," you'd probably be confused, too. Once my brain caught up, I couldn't help but laugh. I've never thought of a stove as having very religious connotations, but apparently the makers of this brand thought otherwise.

Regardless of what I thought, though, there was an actual mode on the stove for respecting the Sabbath. I'm not Jewish, so I wasn't entirely sure whether that covered the requirements or not, but I wasn't about to try it. I wouldn't want to be struck down for using it wrong, you know?

No matter what, that is an awfully interesting feature for a stove to have. And it's not like I would have discovered this were it not for Daylight Saving, so perhaps changing the clock was good for something, after all.
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