Radio controlled clock an hour fast

[Chris French]

A new Lidl has recently in our local town - a bit of a novelty as the nearest Aldlidls are about 20 miles away.

Anyway, popped in today for the first time when passing, to see if they had any interesting things in their deals. I picked up a new radio controlled clock as our old one died.

Thing is, it's it sets itself an hour fast. Instructions say it uses the DCF77 signal from Mainflingen in Germany, which presumably is giving time in CET (GMT+1). Now I don't really know how the system works, but the clocks obviously don't know where in the world they are so presumably are set to pickup a specific signal.

I have a radio controlled watch, but on that I can set the time zone)

So are Lidl are selling a load of clocks which will set themselves wrong :-)

[Mr Macaw]

It would be right if our f****it government hadn't put the clocks back to give us even less light in an already dark winter.

[Mr Macaw]

Is it this one?

[Adrian]

If you're going to blame politicians, then there's three different dates you might find useful to remember.

1916, when it was first introduced. 1966, when the start of a trial saw the UK move to GMT+1 all year. 1970, when the House of Commons reviewed the trial and voted overwhelmingly to go back to the hour change.

But it still wouldn't be right all year, because Germany has an hour clock change in autumn and spring, too.

[Mr Macaw]

The 1966 thing is what we need. Summer doesn't matter what time it is, there's loads of light. Winter has not enough light, particularly in the evening. So we want the clocks FORWARDS not backwards in winter. Might aswell leave them forwards as summer doesn't matter then we don't have to bother changing the clocks.

[Mr Macaw]

Apparently most English want the above, but not Scots for some reason?

[charles]

I bought one from Lidl - which is no longer in my possession, but there is a button push which allows the hours to be adjusted.

[Chris Hogg]

I also have a Lidl RC clock that gets it's time signal from Frankfurt. It's an Auriol IAN 100706. Big flat round face, two rectangular windows, wall-hanging, displays time, day, date, week no., temperature and moon phase. Yours may be different. Somewhere in the instructions or set-up routine there's an option to set the time zone. Just found where: page 9. As they say, when all else fails, read the instructions. :-)

[Adrian]

You might. Parliament didn't.

366 votes to 81.

[Chris French]

In message , Chris Hogg writes

Thanks, but I did once it didn't set it self correctly :-), it says nothing about changing the time zone.

Mine is different model:

A quick web search suggest they have had this problem before with similar clocks

[Chris French]

In message , Mr Macaw writes

No, mine is an analogue one.

[charles]

It's not setting the clocks back - it's setting them correctly to natural time.

It was bad enought, as a student, being Christmas Postie with the clocks as they are now. Sunrise around 8.30am in Edinburgh and there's a lot further north to go.

[Mr Macaw]

Since when has our government done anything sensible? The problem is the type of power hungry morons who like to take up politics are precisely the type of people that shouldn't.

[Mr Macaw]

Our concept of time during a day is not natural. It's invented. There is no "correct" time.

In winter it can get dark about 4 or 5 pm. The WHOLE evening is dark. Nevermind an hour in the morning, think of the whole evening!

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I'd be amazed if it's not possible to switch it to GMT. Lidl seem to manage to sell electrical stuff with UK plugs on them. ;-)

[Chris B]

I have bought 3 from Lidl over the years and they all have had the ability to set the displayed time as +/- 1, 2 or 3 hours. Try playing with the menus or if all else fails try google for the exact type - you will probably find the info.

[Chris French]

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes

Well yes, but I can't see anyway on this clock

[Chris French]

There are no menus, googling it up produces no results.

Manual is here is any one thinks I'm not reading them correctly.

I think Lidl have cocked up :-)

[Adrian]

That was parliament, not the government.

Feel free to ask for an explanation if you don't understand the difference.

[Mr Macaw]

Er.... I read this:

And it's rather unclear. We voted the Tories in, who then decide what laws to change. So who chooses who is in "parliament"? Isn't parliament that room they have on TV with the party leaders at the front wailing at each other, and full of MPs we voted in, hence it's also the "government". I know there's a thing called the "house of lords" which is completely undemocratic, but I'm not sure who has control over what.