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

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ArchwizardTVampirebat · 30/10/2021 18:31

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

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?

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Furries · 31/10/2021 01:22

My car and my oven don’t adjust automatically. I don’t bother changing them, they revert to the correct time in March!

ArchwizardTVampirebat · 31/10/2021 01:24

Ah, it's righted itself. All is well with the world and I can go to sleep.

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BarbaraofSeville · 31/10/2021 05:39

I was going to say the cats

Well my cats didn't get the memo and were jumping on the bed around half an hour ago as their minds are telling them it's 6 am and that's usually what time we get up in the week.

Never mind, I have a lot on today and could use the extra hour. I don't understand why people always call it 'an extra hour in bed' because don't most people get up earlier because their bodies are telling them it's later and their extra hour is actually in the daytime?

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RedRiverShore · 31/10/2021 06:08

My car, it will be an hour out until end of March.

badlydrawnbear · 31/10/2021 07:39

The one in the kitchen because I can't reach to get it down and change it. It would have been right today, but only a few weeks ago someone else changed it. I don't bother with the oven. It says a random time, not even 1hr out. I probably won't bother with the microwave either, so the alarm clock in my bedroom is the only one I will actually change, all the rest either do it themselves or won't be changed. It is annoying though because DC2 has started to be able to tell the time herself instead of having to keep asking me what time it is and she will be confused by the clock being wrong.

ColinTheKoala · 31/10/2021 07:52

The one in the car. It has been wrong for the last 7 months, now it is right again.

ArchwizardTVampirebat · 31/10/2021 09:22

Oven clock done! Like a pp I nearly set a 9 hour timer, but I managed to cancel it. It tends to gain so I've set it a couple of minutes slow.

Now waiting to restart pendulum on my winding clock.

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BearSoFair · 31/10/2021 10:44

DH's alarm clock...every time the clocks change it takes a good 10 minutes for him to figure out the right combination of buttons to change it! By which point he's so frustrated he's pressing at random so can't make a note for next time Grin

Whitefire · 31/10/2021 13:53

The times of posts on this thread is really strange.

Anyway the BMW did itself.

Georgie8 · 31/10/2021 17:09

@ArchwizardTVampirebat
Confess I gave in at 16:45 as poor hound thought it was almost 6pm and his throat had been cut 🤣

Mercedes519 · 31/10/2021 17:15

I feel smug because I had to reset my sunrise clock yesterday after it came on in the morning - on Saturday. I had to figure out the settings and realised it thought it was Friday. While I was doing that though I also moved the time.

ArchwizardTVampirebat · 31/10/2021 19:09

[quote Georgie8]@ArchwizardTVampirebat
Confess I gave in at 16:45 as poor hound thought it was almost 6pm and his throat had been cut 🤣[/quote]
My cats are glued to me because they think it's Dreamies time, AKA 8pm.

Holding firm!

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WellTidy · 31/10/2021 19:11

The oven. It currently says 2:16. It’s clearly never been right. No idea how to change it and we’ve lived here for 11 years.

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