So, who set their clock this morning?

[television]

You sure your not BLONDE?

Just as well you reminded me though lol


Barry

Barry, take a look at all the photo's Hanz puts up.

Malcolm

 

[BarryG]

Barry, take a look at all the photo's Hanz puts up.

Malcolm

Does she have a photo?
Oh I never noticed

 

[Bobthebuilder58]

I always leave my clocks in my cars unchanged and on my phone!!!!!!! it makes a good conversation piece everytime someone gets in the car........"HAVE YOU NOT SET THAT ****** CLOCK YET YOU LAZY GIT??
Bob.

 

[BarryG]

I always leave my clocks in my cars unchanged and on my phone!!!!!!! it makes a good conversation piece everytime someone gets in the car........"HAVE YOU NOT SET THAT ****** CLOCK YET YOU LAZY GIT??
Bob.

So much to do and so little time

Erm? I put mine back at 5pm today or was it 6pm

 

[littlebrooklyn]

So much to do and so little time

Erm? I put mine back at 5pm today or was it 6pm

I've got so many clocks in the house that I usually start the day before too and it takes me ages. The only clock that never gets done on time is the one in the car and I leave that down to my other half to do, which is why it's still on BST

And yes I am blonde, but I'm not stupid

 

[BarryG]

And yes I am blonde, but I'm not stupid

Pure generalisation on my part Lyn. She who must be obeyed is also of the blonde persausion. She too is not stupid, but does still manage to have quite a few BLONDE moments.

Barry

 

[littlebrooklyn]

Pure generalisation on my part Lyn. She who must be obeyed is also of the blonde persausion. She too is not stupid, but does still manage to have quite a few BLONDE moments.

Barry

I have to confess though that I am a bottle blonde as you can see from this

 

[BarryG]

I have to confess though that I am a bottle blonde as you can see from this

I think she would kill me slowly and painfully if I had the nerve to say she to visits the hairdressers quite a lot. AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGG

 

[television]

I think she would kill me slowly and painfully if I had the nerve to say she to visits the hairdressers quite a lot. AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGG

But you are behaving like a blonde,you are the wrong way up, :Oops: or down

Malcolm

 

[BarryG]

But you are behaving like a blonde,you are the wrong way up, :Oops: or down

Malcolm

LMAO
Depends on perspective is the glass half full or half empty?

But nice perspective anyway Lyn

 

[Bowruss]

Although all the posts here are interesting, I still don't see anything definitive about the clock adjusting itself automatically.

Mine - 2004 E320 CDI with Comand, did not reset itself. I turned nav on, got it to direct me home so it would know where it was but still no joy.

I went to the system softkey and set it 1 hr back from there.

Also it didn't set itself when we went to Luxembourg in September. I expected Comand to position itself when I used it (every day) but it didn't and I had to do the above manual reset and reset again when got back to UK.

Also I notice that the clock clicks over 1.5-2secs behind the radio time signal from the BBC. The same thing happens at home when I have 2 radios on - the DAB one is about 1.5-2 secs behind VHF. The merc clock is the same - 1.5-2 secs behind.

Ayone got a view on this riddle? I can't see why Comand doesn't sort this automatically - it must know where it is the moment you turn it on for satnav guidance...

What are we missing here??

Cheers to all and happy new time zone!

Russ

 

[124coupe]

I was about to post the same thing - mine is always a second or so behind the BBC pips so is either amazingly accurate or being reset somehow (but it didn't "do" the clock change). 2005 W211

 

[television]

If the signal is coming via satelite, it is 11.500 miles one way, or 23,000 for the guy who send the signal , you can work out the delay with the speed of light at 186,000 miles an hour, and why they do not delay it,i do not know.

malcolm

 

[M6AJJ]

Comand 2.5 in an S320, definitely updates itself. You just have to be sure to set the correct country.

 

[Shambolic]

My 2005 slk confused me as i went out in the morning having changed my watch the night before and the clock in the car was at the same time which made me think I hadn't changed my watch!!!!
I dont have sat nav or command or anything but it had changed itself...or merc had sent a wee man round in the night to do it for me....how thoughtful!!

 

[SLinKyjoe]

speed of light at 186,000 miles an hour, and why they do not delay it,i do not know.

malcolm

Malcolm

the speed of light is 186,000miles per second. and the GPS stallegtites are between 150 and 300miles high, knocking about in low earth orbit altho they are throwing themselves round the earth at around 17500mph as we speak.

the same system sends the signal to the BBC for them to activate the bips (even tho its automated) which is why the GPS clocks will be almost on time but the public get the time signal later as it has to retrace its steps on the public use stalegmites you see. so its going back on itself before you get the time signal.

Radio clocks take the signal from a transmitter in Germany. which means it goes through 3 UFO's then to a radio mast before you get it.

mind you, whats a second or too.

For those next in London, pop in to the Greenwich museum. Its free and has some info on how all this lot works. You need to go up to the observatory bit tho. You get to see Harrisons' H4. The clock that made Longitude work. http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.13496

 

[television]

Malcolm

the speed of light is 186,000miles per second. and the GPS stallegtites are between 150 and 300miles high, knocking about in low earth orbit altho they are throwing themselves round the earth at around 17500mph as we speak.

the same system sends the signal to the BBC for them to activate the bips (even tho its automated) which is why the GPS clocks will be almost on time but the public get the time signal later as it has to retrace its steps on the public use stalegmites you see. so its going back on itself before you get the time signal.

Radio clocks take the signal from a transmitter in Germany. which means it goes through 3 UFO's then to a radio mast before you get it.

mind you, whats a second or too.

For those next in London, pop in to the Greenwich museum. Its free and has some info on how all this lot works. You need to go up to the observatory bit tho. You get to see Harrisons' H4. The clock that made Longitude work.

What the difference between friends of Hours or seconds
There is also the Rugby Station that put out an auto clock, its on long wave.The german one is on medium wave, When I worked in the radio and televison stations we used one master clock built into the mainframes with slaves in all of the studio's.

Malcolm

 

[SLinKyjoe]

What the difference between friends of Hours or seconds
There is also the Rugby Station that put out an auto clock, its on long wave.

Malcolm

some gobbledegook.
http://www.zyra.org.uk/speed-c.htm


and if i remember right, thats station set the timers for those who had Ecomomy 7 heating, its close to 198 on LW is the signal i think.

 

[television]

some gobbledegook.
http://www.zyra.org.uk/speed-c.htm


and if i remember right, thats station set the timers for those who had Ecomomy 7 heating, its close to 198 on LW is the signal i think.

Yes that is correct, even the German one is almost on long wave at the end of the band. those bands are used as they are hardly affected by light, the propagation is good all the year round.

malcolm

 

[turnipsock]

I climbed into the company vectra on Monday morning, the clock was an hour out. I started it up and the radio came on, hey presto the clock changed.

When Wogan launched the pips, the clock changed to 8am at the instant as the last pip.

RDS was off and I only have a map rather than GPS.