Clocks Going Forward

[Chris-B]

Ok people, when the clocks go forward do I need to change the timing on my engine? Or will it still run ok ?

[Keeping Up]

Ok people, when the clocks go forward do I need to change the timing on my engine? Or will it still run ok ?

It will be fine as long as you remember to reset the engine-hours counter

[Chris-B]

If I just turn it upside down and back to front for an hour will that work ??

[twbm]

Just start it an hour later than usual.

[cuthound]

Could try reversing for the first hour?

[Tam & Di]

I'll have to readjust the sundial mounted on my deck then, or my trip times will be all to cock.

 

Tam

[ditchcrawler]

What happens to the tides?

[system 4-50]

Don't forget to change the time-lock on your drinks cabinet.

[matty40s]

I find running an hour with one of the decompression levers up usually makes the engine come into line with normality, making everything else disappear in a cloud of black smoke and oil.

[Iain_S]

What happens to the tides?

 

They're always on GMT (or UTC)

[MtB]

Ok people, when the clocks go forward do I need to change the timing on my engine? Or will it still run ok ?

 

 

It was last Sunday Chris. Didn't anyone tell you?

 

[Chris-B]

 

 

It was last Sunday Chris. Didn't anyone tell you?

 

I have only just popped back from 2037 to check on my investments Mike

[Mac of Cygnet]

I'm glad all you people are coming into line, but all this clock-changing is a load of nonsense. I'm on UTC+1 permanently, and so is the boat (ship time).

Edited March 26, 2016 by Mac of Cygnet

[Horace42]

Ok people, when the clocks go forward do I need to change the timing on my engine? Or will it still run ok ?

Now you mention it I don't have to put my clocks forward an hour. We are fine weather boaters, so we are usually moored up late September for the Winter, and don't go out again until April, so our boats clock will be bang on the right time - if the batteries have not run down that is.

As for your engine you need to tell us a bit more about it - size, cylinders, gearbox ratio, prop size etc.

[zenataomm]

All wrong! You have to understand how a clock works .....

There are 24 hours in a day, which is why on a clock face you'll see numbers up to 12.

There are three hands, the small one is hours, the second hand is minutes and the third counts the second.

When the small one points to a number that's hours.

When the second hand points to 1 it's five, 2 is ten and 3 is fifteen or a quarter ok? 4 is twenty, 5 is twenty five and 6 is thirty or half past. Clear? 7 is thirty five or twenty five to, 8 is forty or twenty to and of course 9 is forty five, a quarter to or three quarters past. Obviously 10 is fifty or indeed ten while 11 equals fifty five or five to. 12 is o'clock, but everyone knows that ...... why are you crying?

 

The third hand which is the second hand doesn't tell you anything as it moves too quickly.

 

So what you need to do is put all that back 1 hour, or sixty minutes or do it while counting up to 360, which you can do forward while doing it backward.

[bastion]

You could put your clock forward by 10 mins everyday in the week before the change and you would not notice the difference but you might be a bit early for meetings appointments etc.

[Scholar Gypsy]

I think we should move the Inland Waterways to the old Japanese temporal system - I learnt about this when taking a friend to the British Museum last weekend.

 

Until about 1868 the daylight period was divided up into six hours, as was the nighttime. This made the design and operation of clocks somewhat tricky, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_clock

Edited March 26, 2016 by Scholar Gypsy

[dor]

I usually put my clocks forward in late afternoon before the dedicated hour. That way I don't feel I've lost an hour. Far worse is putting the clocks back. I havethat many clocks that it takes me more than an hour to reset them all, so I don't gain anything. What used to be the worst were the ones that needed to go through their chime every hour until I hit on the idea that instead of trying to put the clock back an hour, it was much easier to just stop it for an hour.

[bigray]

Don't forget to change the time-lock on your drinks cabinet.

Does it make much difference if it's open 24 hours a day?

[Klanky]

Ok people, when the clocks go forward do I need to change the timing on my engine? Or will it still run ok ?

 

It depends.

 

Is your engine set up on a lunar cycle or solar?

[NickF]

Run your engine from 1am to 2 am as as that time doesn't exist no one will complain and your engine clock will be adjusted appropriately.

[Loafer]

The hardest thing for me is the re-allocation of 'wine o'clock'! An hour makes a big difference at that time of day!

[monkeyhanger]

Ok people, when the clocks go forward do I need to change the timing on my engine? Or will it still run ok ?

Didn't think horse boats had engines!

Edited March 27, 2016 by monkeyhanger

[RLWP]

I think we should move the Inland Waterways to the old Japanese temporal system - I learnt about this when taking a friend to the British Museum last weekend.

 

Until about 1868 the daylight period was divided up into six hours, as was the nighttime. This made the design and operation of clocks somewhat tricky, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_clock

 

Isn't that elegant

 

Richard

[Paul C]

I recently changed the microwave (to one without a clock) and replaced the other clocks in the house with radio clocks (as in, they receive an accurate time signal by radio) so I had nothing to adjust this morning in the house. The cars' dashboard clocks still need adjusting though.