Don't forget to put your clocks back!

[sonnetpete]

The VU+ has updated and is showing the correct (I.E. European) time. The Dr HD is not but is in standby and was locked onto 4W when I last used it. Rural France is still on 1959...and I don't mean a minute to six o'clock, though I do prefer that it is....

 

[Captain Jack]

A minute to eight, surely!

 

[timo_w2s]

My Technomate and DrHD boxes have to be changed manually, so I did that last night as I had a recording set for this morning at 7am.

 

[sonnetpete]

A minute to eight, surely!

Thanks CJ, I never was any good with the 24hr clock....

 

[Analoguesat]

I see Russia has changed its timezone again -> western Russia has gone back to GMT+3, and increased the number of timezones back to 11

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29773559

 

[Captain Jack]

That'll teach Ross not to read the entire thread

 

[Riverblue]

Trying to get the oven, microwave and fridge to show exactly the same time is a pita :mad:

 

[timo_w2s]

Fridge??

 

[Riverblue]

Fridge??

Big American style Siemens thing

 

[timo_w2s]

Big American style Siemens thing

Posh. And I thought ours was advanced when it had a digital temperature display. ;)

 

[Captain Jack]

Our microwave has a knob for a timer....

 

[Riverblue]

Posh. And I thought ours was advanced when it had a digital temperature display. ;)

Buttons galore, don't even start me on the oven and microwave oven! You should see how thick the instruction booklets are! Having said that though it is all very logical (German!)

 

[2cvbloke]

Our microwave has a knob for a timer....

There's no need to call the missus names...

 

[Lazarus]

So, did as many clocks as I could think of early last evening, tried to go to bed half an hour later than usual, but still woke with jet-lag.

And now to find and alter all the other clocks what I forgot eg Clever Heating Programmer doesn't do the BST/GMT switch automatically, neither do the Cars. Sat Boxes sometimes do and sometimes don't.

And I recall from previous occasions there will still be the odd one I have completely forgotten - but (obviously!) I can't remember which one/ones it is/they are.

The mystery is solved.

My life is such that I frequently need a siesta, so at 2.15 this afternoon I set the Alarm Function on the DECT phone to wake me at 3.45pm.

Sadly, I hadn't reset the Clock Function to Z Time (Quite literally) and got a rude awakening after only 30 minutes!

Feeling a tad grumpy now :mad:

 

[Archived-1]

an early night then for you then G

 

[PaulR]

Feeling a tad grumpy now :mad:

Don't worry, we couldn't tell. ;)

 

[Lazarus]

an early night then for you then G

Always is - generally in bed by 9pm and asleep anywhere from 9.30 and 10.30. Sometimes fatigue just hits in a trice and other times it doesn't.

And the blasted jet-lag hasn't abated yet as I was wide awake at o'crack sparrow f*rt again ths morning. Pesky clocks.

 

[Ghostleader]

Bloody hate DST, out moded crap so it is....My Technomate righted itself as did my high end Chinese android phone.........just before it sent all my personal details to the evil superpower..........Google!! lol

 

[archive10]

Trying to get the oven, microwave and fridge to show exactly the same time is a pita :mad:

We'll how about his for an idea:
What if the power companies modulated the current time-of-day on to the grid.
Then all compatible devices could read the exact time-of-day from the net at any given time, and would always, *ALWAYS* be set right.
Could be low-frequenecy. It's just 50 bits or so, and with some padding, 64.
As time has this remarkable property of being slow-changing and predictable, it could be done relatively slow, so that other things like power-line IP/broad´band is not disturbed.
Non-compatible devices would never know it's there.

How about that: All electrical devices fed of mains would always know what the time was!!

 

[timo_w2s]

We'll how about his for an idea:
What if the power companies modulated the current time-of-day on to the grid.
Then all compatible devices could read the exact time-of-day from the net at any given time, and would always, *ALWAYS* be set right.
Could be low-frequenecy. It's just 50 bits or so, and with some padding, 64.
As time has this remarkable property of being slow-changing and predictable, it could be done relatively slow, so that other things like power-line IP/broad´band is not disturbed.
Non-compatible devices would never know it's there.

How about that: All electrical devices fed of mains would always know what the time was!!

Sounds like a good idea, although I suspect cheap manufacturers would ignore it to keep costs down. We've already got radio time signals everyone could use.