Clocks and other mysterious things...

[Paul Thorpe evo]

Please spare a thought for those 'Headers here with a few cars :-/

Today marks that stressful day, that they have to remember to take an hour off the time displayed, or, in a break with tradition, spend upwards of a millennium, fathoming how the chuff to change them !

• But chin-up, March always gives a welcome relief !

[Gericho]

I never change mine (on the cars that need to be done manually). Its right for 6 months of the year though.

[LarJammer]

My alpine has 2 clocks, one in the binnacle and one in the infotainment screen. You have to do them both.

[Mark_Blanchard]

No clock in my 1969 Dodge Challenger. Became an option in 1972.

[generationx]

My Alfa sorts itself out. I’ll check the Range Rover later - it’s the first time we’ve had it around a clock change.

[Pica-Pica]

Mine have always been easy to change. On my 2016 F30, it can be, and is, set to automatically adjust between GMT and BST. Most modern domestic appliances that rely on a timer (boiler, room thermostat) adjust automatically too. I have still had to adjust two wrist watches, one wall clock, a bedside alarm clock and a cooker timer.

[CanAm]

Gericho said:

I never change mine (on the cars that need to be done manually). Its right for 6 months of the year though.

Almost 7 months if you set it to Summer Time!

[GeniusOfLove]

Really pisses me off how many cars have sat nav so know full well what the time is at my current location but still make me go through some long winded process to change the clock.

"Oh I'll show you a load of utter bks where a tacho should be, I'll ping and ding about a bag blowing across the road three counties away, and I'll talk to your phone so I can spy on your every move and send the data back to god knows where, but you can set your own fking clock"

[Gericho]

CanAm said:

Almost 7 months if you set it to Summer Time!

It says in summer time. Makes me feel optimistic.

[Lester H]

It seems to fall to me to care for four cars in our extended family. Some are easier than others to reset. However does anyone remember the Metro and, I think, the Rover 214 which had a clock which looked like it had come from a pound shop? To its left, there were two buttons labelled ‘H’ and ‘M’. Done in a flash! Another snag is that when you master the menu on some cars, you have forgotten the technique after 6 months.

[Lester H]

Pica-Pica said:

Mine have always been easy to change. On my 2016 F30, it can be, and is, set to automatically adjust between GMT and BST. Most modern domestic appliances that rely on a timer (boiler, room thermostat) adjust automatically too. I have still had to adjust two wrist watches, one wall clock, a bedside alarm clock and a cooker timer.

…and microwaves can be little sods.

[philrs03]

Thankfully Caterham saw fit to not fit another instrument in the dash that wouldn’t be able to display something correctly. Luckily, Speed and Fuel are inconsequential pieces of information when your on a spirited drive in the Herefordshire countryside. I dread to think what the clock would read!

[Terminator X]

LarJammer said:

My alpine has 2 clocks, one in the binnacle and one in the infotainment screen. You have to do them both.

One of them will change if you tick the auto update in settings. The other one, like a poster above, I leave it alone as no idea how to change it!

TX.

[Robertb]

The thing I always forget how to change is the water softener despite having lived in the house for 20 yrs. Not even sure why it needs a clock.

[outnumbered]

Robertb said:

The thing I always forget how to change is the water softener despite having lived in the house for 20 yrs. Not even sure why it needs a clock.

If it's like ours, it's because it wants to know what time of day it is in order to recharge only when you've told it to. If that's in the middle of the night, an hour either way probably doesn't matter though.

[Caddyshack]

LarJammer said:

My alpine has 2 clocks, one in the binnacle and one in the infotainment screen. You have to do them both.

Wow, that seems very lazy of the manufacture when they have things like can bus. I don’t know why but I like setting a time on a car and then watching other bits sync. I can’t remember which car it was, maybe our Z3m but you could set the digital and then watch the analogue hands move on another dial to sync.

[Pica-Pica]

Lester H said:

Pica-Pica said:

Mine have always been easy to change. On my 2016 F30, it can be, and is, set to automatically adjust between GMT and BST. Most modern domestic appliances that rely on a timer (boiler, room thermostat) adjust automatically too. I have still had to adjust two wrist watches, one wall clock, a bedside alarm clock and a cooker timer.

…and microwaves can be little sods.

Our microwave has just two rotary dials, strength and countdown timer.

[Caddyshack]

Pica-Pica said:

Lester H said:

Pica-Pica said:

Mine have always been easy to change. On my 2016 F30, it can be, and is, set to automatically adjust between GMT and BST. Most modern domestic appliances that rely on a timer (boiler, room thermostat) adjust automatically too. I have still had to adjust two wrist watches, one wall clock, a bedside alarm clock and a cooker timer.

…and microwaves can be little sods.

Our microwave has just two rotary dials, strength and countdown timer.

Do you hide it when friends come round? I didn’t know you could still get them like that.

[Bobupndown]

Gericho said:

I never change mine (on the cars that need to be done manually). Its right for 6 months of the year though.

My wife does this, it fractures me, I change it at the first opportunity. Had to move her car this afternoon so that's it done

[Wacky Racer]