On 17 Oct 2003, Mark wrote

How do these Radio controlled clocks supposed to work? I today
bought a cheap LCD rc alarm clock from Littlewoods but can't get
the clock to automatically update to the correct time.

-snip-

Any ideas welcome?

I suspect that out of sheer rotten luck you've hit an outage during the
annual maintenance period -- my bedside clock hasn't updated since
about 9 am this morning.

This shouldn't last more than a day, though: take a look at the NPL
outages page at http://www.npl.co.uk/time/msfoutages.html: that notes
that this year's annual maintenance fortnight is 6 - 20 October, and
that:

Usually during annual maintenance periods it is likely that
the service will be interrupted, although these outages will
be kept to a minimum. The service is restored overnight
between 2000 BST and 0800 BST whenever possible.

So: leave it overnight, and see if it picks up the signal.

HTH

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Cheers,
Harvey

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