don't turn that clock back

[stay da course?]

that can damage the mechanism. turn off the power for an hour. savvy? I Remember Another Quagmire = IRAQ

[Harry K]

So I presume you buy a new clock every spring? Must take a lot of shopping to find one showing the right time

Harry K

[lwasserm]

Of course not! He turns is off for 23 hours.

[HeyBub]

He unplugs them when not in use. Saves power.

[Al Bundy]

[e-mail] () wrote in news:pOadnfntursVWdnYnZ2dnUVZ_t- [e-mail]:

Don't laugh. In the last place I overhauled the knob stud was broken off. That's exactly what I did. You know, clocks/timers, etc for appliances you can pretty much bank on 100 bucks.

[Jeff Wisnia]

This thread has me wondering....

Next year, when the Sundays on which Daylight Saving Time changes are no longer the ones presently in use, will my old Windows98 computer know that, or will it mention that it just reset the clock by an hour....on the wrong Sundays? The changing of Sundays was decreed in 2005.

There's more than you need to know about DST here:

Jeff

[me]

Damn, I aready changed my c*ck. Now what?

[Charlie Bress]

I don't think that the PC will update without some fixes. I haven't really chased into the problem yet. Consider this. the operating system- Win 98, ME, XP etc. has a set up on Control Panel that tells the system what time zone you are in and if it is time to transition to DST or back. If you use the built in time checker of the later OS versions or one of the manual ones that are available to set your time on demand it is obvious, if you really stop and consider it, that there is only one time standard that is transmitted and that is UTC time. You also know it as Greenwich Mean Time. Your set up in Control Panel puts in the correct offset to show the local time. How it stores the dates for DST is a question. It may very well be in BIOS. My guess is that that is where it is. Changing the dates in BIOS may be manual, or need a download, or could even be hard coded. Check with you manufacturer and good luck.

There is another area that has not gotten as much attention-VCRs. I have two VCRs that allow automatic time correction for DST transitions. I have no clue as to what will happen here. The older one made the appropriate change last night. The newer one that claims to sync into the time standards did not do its thing automatically. I set it manually this morning, but am waiting to see if its synchronizing feature kicks in and corrects the time ( I missed getting it right by about a minute.

Charlie

[Stormin Mormon]

I tried that. Now it blinks 12:00. Maybe if I turn it off for another hour?

[Pat]

You changed your what??????????? Oh, you got a new rooster who knew the time!!! Got it.

[jerry_maple]

Here in AZ we don't do that DST thing.

However, when we woke up Sunday morning, the newish clock-radio in the bedroom was an hour earlier than all the other clocks in the house. It has one of those auto-set features, plug it it and it knows what time it is. There appears to be no way to actually disable the auto time set stuff - had to use the button to switch time zones until I got the right time. Guess I'll have to do the same thing the other direction next spring.

Don't you just love electronics that think they are smarter than you are?

Jerry

[Rod Dahl]

So, what do you do in the spring? Turn your clocks off for 23 hours?

[Philip Lewis]

The "bad" thing for many older clock mechanism is running it *backwards*. This is especially important for clocks with striking mechanisms which can become out of sync with the clock.

I've never heard of any problems advancing the time forward.

I'm sure you'll find more than one (conflicting) reason for this by visiting some of the links returned by:

[ephedralover]

Fuck, everytime I turn the clock off it blinks 12:00. Damn it.

[krw]

If it was one of the "atomic clocks" you simply didn't set it to the right time zone.

No, but I love the ones that are just smart enough. My "atomic clock" and my PC are fine. My bedroom clock is still wrong because it is a PITA to set. ...exactly the opposite problem. ...not an issue because I can subtract "one" in my head, even at 5:00AM. ;-)

[krw]

My grandfather clock is the opposite. The instructions demand that it only be set backwards.

Opposite of my experience.

[Craven Morehead]

Let's be clear on this forward / backward thing. Traditional (analog) clocks / watches don't mind / care if you turn them forward or backward to set the time. Truth be told, many / most / some have a feature that uses your occasional forward / backward adjustments to fine tune it's time keeping mechanism.

This assumes they are NOT the type with fancy features such as "day / date". The fancy ones use a special wheel to advance the day / date wheel at / about midnight of each day. This cam wheel (like my girlfriend) doesn't like backward. The only option being to go forward 23 hours.

Now, let's move on.

[Chris Lewis]

According to Al Bundy :

Note that some manufacturers seemed to have learned.

The time setting knob on an electronic stove we used to have broke off. At the time, the only replacement was several hundred bucks for a new control unit.

Since then they've come up with a small "splice" plastic thingumie for about $3.

[Mark Lloyd]

Your clock has a bad memory, and can't remember stuff when it wakes up.

You could use a device that varies the frequency of the AC (I've seen one of these used for controlling a telescope). Set it to 240Hz (200Hz in Europe) and let it run for 5 hours and 45 minutes (math not guaranteed) to get the effect of setting it back an hour).

[Goedjn]

A clock with chimes will frequently get very upset with you if you push the thing through the chime sequence. THe technique that I've seen is to advance the clock to a few minutes short of the hour, wait for it to ring, and then finish setting it. (to advance the clock), and to just stop the pendulum for an hour when setting it back. If the chime/Alarm doesn't have a mechanical movement, it probably doesn't matter much which way you move it.

--Goedjn