"Mike Lane" wrote in message
dia.com...
I wonder if anyone else has noticed that some radio controlled clocks are
not
keeping quite as accurate time recently. but I have two which I've noticed
have been drifting apart by a few seconds over the last few days.

I've just discovered the reason which is that the NPL transmitter at
Anthorn,
Cumbria has been shut down since 26 March for maintenance work. It's due
to
go back on on Friday 6 April.
http://tinyurl.com/d2g4s74

I was a bit puzzled that my watch wasn't affected until I remembered that
(unlike the clocks) it's dual frequency and can receive the signal from
Mainflingen, Germany as well as Anthorn

Anyone else got a 2000-odd Vauxhall with their crap built in clock? It
syncs via RDS but each spring-forward/fall-back it won't sync. I've found
that if the clock time is within about 5 minutes, it will resync but not
anything more. So someone clearly decided "within 5 mins, good signal so
sync, outside 5 mins bad signal so ignore" and forgot to also allow for the
summer time leaps - doh.

Paul DS