Clocks going back tonight - which of your clocks is most difficult to change?

[ArchwizardTVampirebat]

Suspect this is one of those boring threads that no one will reply to but I'll give it a whirl .

I've got a vintage pendulum clock where I'll have to stop the pendulum for an hour (or else go through the total PITA that is re-synching its chimes).

It'll take me the customary five minutes of fiddling round to remember how to change the one on the oven.

The one in the car is about to enter its usual 5 months of being an hour fast because we have no idea how to change it.

I recently acquired a radio controlled clock (analogue) and I really want to see what it does when the clocks change but not sure I want to stay up till 2am BST.

Anyone else want to share their clock changing quirks?

I only have to change the oven and the car. I know how to do the car as it's always running slow do I need to put it forward a bit occasionally. DS does the oven for me!

I don't have an oven clock - one of the things in life I'm most grateful for

Phones and iPads and tv does itself.

Ds will do the car clock as soon as we get in it tomorrow - otherwise it'll drive him mad!

But I'm jealous of your vintage clock - but not of the faff of changing the time.

Oh I've just remembered I don't change the thermostat one either!

That's because it's not on a timer as I just have it at 19° all year round and override it warmer if I ever feel the need!

But you've reminded me I need to get ds to change his digital alarm clock before bed as we need to get up at 6am tomorrow

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I don't have an oven clock - one of the things in life I'm most grateful for

Ours serves no actual purpose because I never use the timer function on the oven, and for time-telling in the kitchen, there's another on the microwave.

Not my clock, don't even have any in the house apart from the heating controls but the old boys next door greenhouse clock. Despite wearing a fitbit, I always look out at his greenhouse clock to see what time it is. It's very unsettling when it's wrong, I even changed the battery once when they were on holiday.

The clock in my car , it’s either 8 minutes or 52 minutes wrong ( usually I ask the bloke dong the servicing to change it for me , but I forgot. )
My wrist watch is easy , however I have no idea what the date is
No oven clock ( thank goodness )

"Move one house to the left"

I only got round to changing our clock in the kitchen last month.
Gets a chair, stands on the worktop, walk along the worktop, stand on tiptoes and get the clock down, changes the time, swears and sweats trying to get the bloody thing back on the wall.

Haha yes the dog and the kids. No problems with the others.

The oven clock is a pita as we have a lot of power cuts so is now perpetually wrong. I've given up on it so we now have breakfast at 22:15 etc.

A big one that hangs over my stairs.
I put it up when I was much younger and fitter and less scared of falling!
Now it just has to be an ornamental 3D picture on the wall, because not only can I not put the clock back, but I can't replace the battery either.

Oven and car radio clocks seem to be the winners on here! Although closely-run by DC and pets.

I'm confused about all the car clocks that need resetting. On every car I've had for the last 20 years I've just had to tune the radio to a channel with an RDS signal and it resets the clock automatically after a few minutes.

Microwave

The one in my car. Which is why it stays on GMT all year round, and has been an hour behind for months. I'm used to it, but passengers can get a bit disconcerted. Tomorrow it will show the right time again!

Our car- we cannot work out how to change the clock but thankfully it's about to be right for the next 6 months....

@FatFredsFriedEgg

I'm confused about all the car clocks that need resetting. On every car I've had for the last 20 years I've just had to tune the radio to a channel with an RDS signal and it resets the clock automatically after a few minutes.

The clock in our car is completely separate from the radio - it's in a panel to the right of the driving wheel along with a thermometer.

@DrHildegardeLanstrom

My oven - it's heading into its 6 month period of being an hour wrong

my car is the same - about to go in to the right time

The oven, no question, because if you look at it the wrong way it changes function, and you suddenly find that instead of changing the clock you've set yourself a 23-hour-long timer. A timer you forget about, then 23 hours later wonder what the FUCK that noise is, because of course you never use the timer, and if you tried, you'd only end up setting the clock.

I never change my car clock. It went for years being either 7 mins or 1 hr 7 mins fast. I was used it and always arrived anywhere in plenty of time. I was most discombobulated when dh borrowed the car and set it to the CORRECT time. I forgave him as he also hoovered it

The big one in the kitchen. Changing the actual time is a piece of piss, but hanging it back up again is impossible.

But I'm working away from tomorrow so I'll just ignore it until I leave and hope that DP will do it while I'm away.

My car one is the easiest. Clock icon, minus 1, job done. Love it

I have a horrendously naff bird call clock that was my late Grandas, and it’s a pest to change. Turn hands anti-clockwise to some random time, but batteries back in, turn clockwise to correct time…and if you don’t do it right you end up with birds with the wrong call 😂

My car one is a nightmare, but tomorrow it will show the right time again for a while.
I just caught Dh doing the clocks. Only he'd put them forward an hour I'd have been really early for work tomorrow if I hadn't caught him.