These are devices from simpler times: no networking stack, not even an OS, sometimes not even firmware, just the basic function encoded with transistors. There's literally nothing to run on. Think water heaters, not RPi.

I know! Though strangely, my own kitchen appliances didn't participate in the continental time-shift (my microwave oven is still ticking correctly).

And my remark was more: even NTP can't save ou if you shift the time too much, so it's a good thing it's only ~6 minutes so far.

> even NTP can't save ou if you shift the time too much, so it's a good thing it's only ~6 minutes so far.

Only for the initial step, or if the frequency of the quartz crystal is too fast/slow. The NTP daemon continuously adjusts the clock frequency, so if it was already running and synchronized, the shift will never be more than a few milliseconds.

Probably not considering some of these used a stepper motor to drive their clock that was coupled to the grid frequency.

These devices don't have any computing power.