Clocks

Liriodendron

Why is it so difficult to find the right time, and set all the clocks in the house to it?  My mobile phone and my Chromebook both claim to be radio controlled, and both update themselves automatically to GMT, yet my phone says it's 5 minutes later than my computer.  (Anyone know why??)  The only way to find the exact time for setting my watch seems to be to listen to R4 long wave (a bit scratchy here in Ireland, but possible) and set it by the "pips".  I use public transport, and knowing if you're 5 minutes late for the bus is important...

Some clocks which are supposed to update automatically, still need turning off and on again before they will do so.  I can't understand the instructions for changing the time on the unit controlling the solar panels (though neither can I understand why it needs a clock...).  And the clock on the weather station is a law unto itself.  It insists that it's an hour later than it actually is; I can set it manually to the right time, but by the next morning it's re-set itself... the only explanation that I can think of is that we are living a very long way west in this time zone, and the (German-made) weather station can't cope with it.

And now the car clock is not just seven minutes fast, which I've got used to, but an hour and seven minutes...  

chicky

Will spend the next week updating the clocks I have forgotten about.  It will help distract me from the fact that the sun seems to set before I have put the kettle on for my afternoon cuppa.

Liriodendron

Life was so much simpler when OH and I were first married... we had one clock in the living room, and a watch each.

BenCotto

Great Tom, Christ Church, still rings Oxford time, 5 minutes behind GMT. Perhaps you could adopt Scariff time @Liriodendron.

Fire

I always check my time against the internet clock. Radio controlled clocks shouldn't be off. Ever. My watches looses time like crazy - sometimes ten mins a month when I wear it regularly. I've always had that effect on watches. 

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/index.html

steveTu

@Liriodendron

Check with the devices that are an hour out to see if they have a Daylight Saving setting. I have a couple of Roberts Radio that should update automatically from the network, but they also have a Daylight Saving setting (in my mind pointless, as the network time should pick up the correct time anyway) - that pushes them out by an hour.

Nanny Beach

One in the cooker, microwave, landline phone, don't update. Got battery clock in summer house and by the bed. I have permanent tinnitus,so I used to concentrate on the tick when it kept me awake at night. It went wrong just as we needed to get up for an appointment, hubby bought a "silent" model. Here near Steve,we had radio control alarm it used to set itself to Germany,took it back. My car doesn't re-set(must remember to tell my son) my hubby's city car didn't,was using it a few years back to visit this son,woman in Sainsbury's said "good afternoon" I laughed and said it was morning where I lived! Was asleep on the sofa soon after 7pm. Wish they'd stop messing with the time!

floralies

Our car clock if always an hour out from October to March as I can never be bothered to try and find the menu to alter it.......one of these days I just might!

Pete.8

floralies said:

Our car clock if always an hour out from October to March as I can never be bothered to try and find the menu to alter it.......one of these days I just might!

Yup - mine too and for the same reason.
Bought new in 2016, but never got round to finding out what all the buttons do.
It was only last year I realized it had a refrigerated glove box - presumably to keep your gloves chilled..

floralies

 

Liriodendron

Thanks for the tip, @steveTu.  I'll find the instructions and see if that's the problem... somehow I doubt it though; our son, who lectures in electronic engineering, had a go and couldn't sort it out...

Thanks too to @Fire.  I've now put my watch properly right, thanks to your link.