Radio controlled clock an hour fast

[pamela]

Unexpectedly, it seems not in this case. See this link Chris posted elsewhere:

[Chris French]

Yup.

Yup, they have cocked up.

[Mr Macaw]

The earth's rotation changes by up to 50 seconds either way per day.

[Mr Macaw]

No, they come and paint different numbers on all our clocks and watches so the light happens earlier in the day.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

When I were a kid in the NE of Scotland, we went to school in the dark as well as coming home after dark for some of the winter.

But had daylight until after 11pm in mid summer.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

That's good. Know any udder ones?

[damduck-egg]

You're milking this.

G.Harman

[Thomas Prufer]

The smallest time increment the current time zones show is 15 minutes.

That would be outside the usual reception area: Nepal, Australia, New Zealand...

Thomas Prufer

[PeterC]

You need to turn on Time Zones - it's not obvious where this is, on mine, as it's not in the settings but on other buttons.

[Brian-Gaff]

Well, Its been a while since I could see this, but I remember one clock that was as described here, but as I recall there was a couple of sentences in the scrap of paper which doubled as a manual to the effect that if yu press certain buttons and hold them for x seconds, it allows the ofset to be changd. This of course was fine until the clocks changed the next time, whereupon you had lost the bit of paper and could not remember what to push! Brian

[Dave Liquorice]

year.

No we fing don't. That trial was awful from the POV of a six year old, walking to school in the dark wearing the issued Hi-viz waist coat.

If people want to have a BBQ on the patio in late December (and it has been warm enough for that this year) fit the working hours to the available daylight. The wage slave 9-5 is an hour offset from (GMT) daylight, 8-4 would be a better fit and for those that want a BBQ do

7-3.

The clocks aren't backwards in winter, they are closer to siderial time, ie noon is when the sun is highest in the sky.

Apart from the spurious "light evenings" argument trading with europe is put forward as a reason for sticking with GMT+1 all year. Except of course most of the EU moves to GMT+2 in the summer so that blows that argument out of the water.

See above as a six year old in the trial period I hated it and that was in the Midlands. Up here in the North of England or further north I dread to think what it was like.

Camera switches to B&W "night" mode about the light level that if you are outside working by natural light you should have packed up and finished for day a little while earlier.

That page refreshes each hour, last night 22 Dec was cloudy and dark (there is a small IR illuminator for the FG). Night before clearish and lit from an approximately 3/4 full moon.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

The obvious snag is the time of daybreak changes dramatically across the country. So what is fine in one part won't be in another.

[Chris French]

In message , Chris French writes

Lidl have confirmed that you can't set the clocks to UK time.

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but my adjusted one is going fine so I think I'll keep it.

[The Natural Philosopher]

This is why I always scan those scraps of paper and put them in a directory called 'manuals' on my server..

[Dave Liquorice]

Roughly 40 mins most westerly (Soay) to most easterly (Lowestoft) points of the UK but with a 8:1 bias to early sunrise. So Soay has sunrise approx 32 mins before Greenwich. Yes, I know it's not that simple as the earth is a tilted spheroid so the terminator doesn't follow the lines of longitude very well. I think that that affect may have is to shorten the time difference between Soay and Greenwich in the Winter.

[Bob Eager]

I put them on my e-reader too.

[Mathew Newton]

Ah, but think of the extra hour it'll give you... you might even have time to put your feet up if you finish early! ;-)

[polygonum]

Doesn't seem likely that they would choose such an unusual step as to select a quarter-hour difference. But if they chose anything that wasn't same-day, same-difference then they would need to manually adjust at least some of the time. Building their own time signal would take years to be adopted by manufacturers of clocks.

[Bob Minchin]

No need to return it, just pull off the hands having let it set itself 1 hr ahead of GMT and then replace the hands on GMT. Simples

[ARW]

The farmer did.