And it may be time for our Aussie friends to tweak theres too... recall it clashed in the Autumn / Spring depending on which side of the globe you live.
UK 1 Hour forwards - thats 1 hour less sleep / late for work ;-)
"Spring forward and fall back" as they say (helps me remember it anyway.
Lee D
In Sydney we still have another week before our clocks go back. It's been delayed because of the Commonwealth Games (big yawn). Since it is still dark at close to 7.00am it is really time for the clocks to go back, not that I'll enjoy the darker evenings but the dark mornings bring back too many memories of British winters. People here have trouble understanding how awful it used to be to go to school in the dark and come home in the dark in winter. When I was at uni, if we slept in really late (I'm talking into the afternoon here) we could miss daylight altogether!
On or around Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:56:31 -0000, "Lee_D" enlightened us thusly:
quite a lot of 'em do it automagically now. The computer has, and the video, and the combi-printer thing, and the radio-controlled clock on the kitchen wall. I've yet to see it actually do "going back" - I did once see it go forwards.
I'm stupid. I bought one of those 3-quid radio-controlled alarm clocks that Lidl were selling, a month or so back. Nice big LCD display, easy to use light at oh-dark-thirty, but it adjusts itself rather than waiting for me to wake up on a Sunday morning....
And after Saturdau I need to buy my beauty-sleep wholesale.
My radio controlled clock came set that it was in a different country and it took me a long time to work out how to set it to be in the UK - it would keep adjusting itself an hour out and making me think I was late!
What bugs me is mobile phones they are fitted with tons of gadgets java ringtones flashing lights but don't reset to BST and worse the menu is hidden away in the most arcane way . Derek
Time for the twice yearly "swearing at the clock on the cooker" ritual as I try and figure out how you adjust the bloody thing. I usually end up loosing another hour doing that one alone!
Matt
...and "David G. Bell" spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...
There isn't a shop in the world that sells enough beauty sleep to make me presentable.
On or around Sun, 26 Mar 2006 10:34:58 GMT, Derek enlightened us thusly:
and why is it that removing the battery resets the clock and calendar when it remembers everything else, and WIT2 that after resetting the clock/calendar it then insists on going through about a week's-worth of reminder things that it's "missed".
stupid gadget. It should be able to sync itself to a time-server like the pooters do - FFS, even my car radio can do that.
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:00:46 +0100, Austin Shackles scribbled the following nonsense:
you could always do a Martyn......
Why bother? I don't set the one on the microwave but then if you don't set it it doesn't display anything other than a colon. If it insisted on showing numbers, even flashing ones, it would be set.
Cos most things are stored on the SIM, but the clock and related functions are by defn. variable, so are never remembered.
but WTF it can't update it from the base station when it connects? Think mine actually has an option to turn that on, but it don't do nuttin!
Yeah, mine has an "auto update" clock option, but it has never done anything!
Matt.
That's it. Useless!!
I think it's for when you travel to another time zone, your phone will automagically tell you the time in that zone. I agree WTF it can't follow changes in local time is just daft, it's not as if DST is a "new thing"...
On or around Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:47:45 +0100, Simon Isaacs enlightened us thusly:
's not as good as the running over the phone one.
All of my Sony-Ericssssons from the T68i onwards have been able to sync to "network time" if you put them on "auto timezone", I forgot this time on the new one but the past two have updated correctly.
My watch, alarm clock, computers and PDA also all handled it, although the central heating didn't so a nice cold shower for me!
Also it's on the last sunday of October and March every year, hardly beyond the capabilities of mankind to put that in the timezone information, as done on every computer I've ever owned since the early
90's..
Nope, doesn't do that either! I travel to France every couple of weeks and it's never changed the time for me. If I manually change the time zone on the phone it automatically adjusts the time on the phone to that new time zone, but doesn't do it otherwise. Although by the time I've messed about changing time zones on the phone I might as well have just adjusted the clock manually!
It surely can't be a difficult job to get it to pick up the time from the local cell.
Matt.
On or around Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:56:41 +0100, Ian Rawlings enlightened us thusly:
My motorola AFAIK doesn't have that - but then it is a few years old.
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