Graham Davis Posted March 27, 2016 Report Share Posted March 27, 2016 Used to love watching the radio controlled clock in the signal box go bonkers at 0200!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 (edited) 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. This puzzles me too. It is a simple task for the manufacturers to program in the hour shifts for a new car for the next, say 50 years surely? (Given car clocks are electronic these days.) Edited March 28, 2016 by Mike the Boilerman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul C Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 Newer cars do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 This puzzles me too. It is a simple task for the manufacturers to program in the hour shifts for a new car for the next, say 50 years surely? (Given car clocks are electronic these days.) Proper clocks are, however, poised to make a comeback. The new Suzuki Vitara, for example, has one, and handsome it looks too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dor Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 Proper clocks are, however, poised to make a comeback. The new Suzuki Vitara, for example, has one, and handsome it looks too. It makes a lot more sense to have an analogue dial clock in a car. You rarely need to know the time to the exact minute when travelling, so a quick glance at an analogue clock gives you the information you need. A digital clock needs reading and interpreting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie Booth Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 This puzzles me too. It is a simple task for the manufacturers to program in the hour shifts for a new car for the next, say 50 years surely? (Given car clocks are electronic these days.) Mike you must change your Model T Ford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 It is time that clocks were metric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loafer Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 Wine o'clock now adjusted correctly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
system 4-50 Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 I need a rev counter and the other dials, fine, but I also need a clock! Please, engine people, put a nice big clock on the panels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loafer Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 It is time that clocks were metric. Now I like THAT idea! That means that wine o'clock (5pm, or 1700hrs, or the second time the hour hand passes '5' each day) will come forward two hours each day. Yum yum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter X Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 The only clock I have to adjust is the one on my oven; I stopped wearing a watch about two years ago because I always carry my mobile. Automatic adjustment for daylight saving is fine so long as a clock knows its time zone and has a connection to a computer which knows the rules, but I wonder how well these cars cope when driven around into different time zones. Do they use GPS to detect that, e.g. going back an hour when driven across the border from Spain into Portugal, and can they handle all the bizarre local rules which exist in some parts of the world? In Mexico they have some individual towns which are on a different time to the rest of the same state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul G2 Posted March 29, 2016 Report Share Posted March 29, 2016 The only clock I have to adjust is the one on my oven; I stopped wearing a watch about two years ago because I always carry my mobile. Automatic adjustment for daylight saving is fine so long as a clock knows its time zone and has a connection to a computer which knows the rules, but I wonder how well these cars cope when driven around into different time zones. Do they use GPS to detect that, e.g. going back an hour when driven across the border from Spain into Portugal, and can they handle all the bizarre local rules which exist in some parts of the world? In Mexico they have some individual towns which are on a different time to the rest of the same state. Mexico also seems to have some kind thing about having the same time as the US. The divide between the countries is latitudinal, so there's no reason for time to change at the border, but it always does. On the other extreme, China, which is geographically similar to the US size wise, has only one time zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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