Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 12:06:36 +0000, Chris French wrote:

A new Lidl has recently in our local town - a bit of a novelty as the
nearest Aldlidls are about 20 miles away.

Anyway, popped in today for the first time when passing, to see if they
had any interesting things in their deals. I picked up a new radio
controlled clock as our old one died.

Thing is, it's it sets itself an hour fast. Instructions say it uses the
DCF77 signal from Mainflingen in Germany, which presumably is giving
time in CET (GMT+1). Now I don't really know how the system works, but
the clocks obviously don't know where in the world they are so
presumably are set to pickup a specific signal.

I have a radio controlled watch, but on that I can set the time zone)

So are Lidl are selling a load of clocks which will set themselves wrong
:-)

You need to turn on Time Zones - it's not obvious where this is, on mine, as
it's not in the settings but on other buttons.
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Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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I find it hard to believe that krauts could **** up as spectacularly as
that.

Oh Ye of little Faith...

We'll see...

Volkswagen?

Nothing even remotely like as ****ed up.

Energiewiende?

Nothing even remotely like as ****ed up.

Cultural Marxism has rendered Germany more ****ed up than most places

Even sillier than you usually manage.

Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

Well, Its been a while since I could see this, but I remember one clock that
was as described here, but as I recall there was a couple of sentences in
the scrap of paper which doubled as a manual to the effect that if yu press
certain buttons and hold them for x seconds, it allows the ofset to be
changd. This of course was fine until the clocks changed the next time,
whereupon you had lost the bit of paper and could not remember what to push!
Brian

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In article ,
Chris French wrote:
A new Lidl has recently in our local town - a bit of a novelty as the
nearest Aldlidls are about 20 miles away.

Anyway, popped in today for the first time when passing, to see if they
had any interesting things in their deals. I picked up a new radio
controlled clock as our old one died.

Thing is, it's it sets itself an hour fast. Instructions say it uses the
DCF77 signal from Mainflingen in Germany, which presumably is giving
time in CET (GMT+1). Now I don't really know how the system works, but
the clocks obviously don't know where in the world they are so
presumably are set to pickup a specific signal.

I have a radio controlled watch, but on that I can set the time zone)

So are Lidl are selling a load of clocks which will set themselves wrong
:-)

I'd be amazed if it's not possible to switch it to GMT. Lidl seem to
manage to sell electrical stuff with UK plugs on them. ;-)

Well yes, but I can't see anyway on this clock
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Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:55:21 -0000, Phil L wrote:

1966, when the start of a trial saw the UK move to GMT+1 all
year.

The 1966 thing is what we need.

No we fing don't. That trial was awful from the POV of a six year
old, walking to school in the dark wearing the issued Hi-viz waist
coat.

Summer doesn't matter what time it is, there's loads of light.
Winter
has not enough light, particularly in the evening.

If people want to have a BBQ on the patio in late December (and it
has been warm enough for that this year) fit the working hours to the
available daylight. The wage slave 9-5 is an hour offset from (GMT)
daylight, 8-4 would be a better fit and for those that want a BBQ do
7-3.

So we want the clocks FORWARDS not backwards in winter.

The clocks aren't backwards in winter, they are closer to siderial
time, ie noon is when the sun is highest in the sky.

Might aswell leave them forwards as summer doesn't matter then we
don't
have to bother changing the clocks.

Apart from the spurious "light evenings" argument trading with europe
is put forward as a reason for sticking with GMT+1 all year. Except
of course most of the EU moves to GMT+2 in the summer so that blows
that argument out of the water.

And as now it only gets light at 8AM, if it were left like that, it
would still be dark when all the kids were going to school at 8:30, this
is why they changed it - an extra hour at 4pm is a waste of light, all
the kids are back home by then

See above as a six year old in the trial period I hated it and that
was in the Midlands. Up here in the North of England or further north
I dread to think what it was like.

http://www.howhill.com/weather/webcam_24.php

Camera switches to B&W "night" mode about the light level that if you
are outside working by natural light you should have packed up and
finished for day a little while earlier.

That page refreshes each hour, last night 22 Dec was cloudy and dark
(there is a small IR illuminator for the FG). Night before clearish
and lit from an approximately 3/4 full moon.

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Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

In article o.uk,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
1966, when the start of a trial saw the UK move to GMT+1 all
year.

The 1966 thing is what we need.

No we fing don't. That trial was awful from the POV of a six year
old, walking to school in the dark wearing the issued Hi-viz waist
coat.

The obvious snag is the time of daybreak changes dramatically across the
country. So what is fine in one part won't be in another.

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Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

In message , Chris French
writes

So are Lidl are selling a load of clocks which will set themselves
wrong :-)

Lidl have confirmed that you can't set the clocks to UK time.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/auri...ock-8-99-lidl-
2356739?page=5#comments

comment #91

but my adjusted one is going fine so I think I'll keep it.
--
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Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On 22/12/15 09:02, Brian-Gaff wrote:
Well, Its been a while since I could see this, but I remember one clock that
was as described here, but as I recall there was a couple of sentences in
the scrap of paper which doubled as a manual to the effect that if yu press
certain buttons and hold them for x seconds, it allows the ofset to be
changd. This of course was fine until the clocks changed the next time,
whereupon you had lost the bit of paper and could not remember what to push!
Brian


This is why I always scan those scraps of paper and put them in a
directory called 'manuals' on my server..


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Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:55:10 +0000 (GMT), Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

The 1966 thing is what we need.

No we fing don't. That trial was awful from the POV of a six year
old, walking to school in the dark wearing the issued Hi-viz waist
coat.

The obvious snag is the time of daybreak changes dramatically across the
country. So what is fine in one part won't be in another.

Roughly 40 mins most westerly (Soay) to most easterly (Lowestoft)
points of the UK but with a 8:1 bias to early sunrise. So Soay has
sunrise approx 32 mins before Greenwich. Yes, I know it's not that
simple as the earth is a tilted spheroid so the terminator doesn't
follow the lines of longitude very well. I think that that affect may
have is to shorten the time difference between Soay and Greenwich in
the Winter.

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Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

Mr Macaw wrote:
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 18:19:32 -0000, F news@nowhere wrote:

On 21/12/2015 12:28, Mr Macaw wrote:

The 1966 thing is what we need. Summer doesn't matter what time it
is, there's loads of light. Winter has not enough light,
particularly in the evening. So we want the clocks FORWARDS not
backwards in winter. Might aswell leave them forwards as summer
doesn't matter then we don't have to bother changing the clocks.

Apparently most English want the above, but not Scots for some
reason?

Scottish farmers, if I remember correctly.

Since when did Scots farmers outnumber everyone else in the UK?

**** off PHucker ******.

Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 13:07:04 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 22/12/15 09:02, Brian-Gaff wrote:
Well, Its been a while since I could see this, but I remember one clock
that was as described here, but as I recall there was a couple of
sentences in the scrap of paper which doubled as a manual to the effect
that if yu press certain buttons and hold them for x seconds, it allows
the ofset to be changd. This of course was fine until the clocks
changed the next time, whereupon you had lost the bit of paper and
could not remember what to push!
Brian


This is why I always scan those scraps of paper and put them in a
directory called 'manuals' on my server..

I put them on my e-reader too.

Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On Monday, 21 December 2015 14:30:43 UTC, Chris French wrote:

Could you carefully remove the hour hand and refit it an hour previous?
It might be a keyed shaft to ease assembly (no calibration) however if
it is just a splined/interference shaft you might be okay.


Quite possibly, but I've got better things to do right now.

Ah, but think of the extra hour it'll give you... you might even have time to put your feet up if you finish early! ;-)

Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On 22/12/2015 08:00, Thomas Prufer wrote:
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:51:57 +0000, polygonum wrote:

I am imagining Scotland choosing no summer/winter change, changing on
different dates, doubled change, or something else that can't ready be
handled by the existing simplistic "which transmitter" and "extra
hour/minus hour" mechanisms.

The smallest time increment the current time zones show is 15 minutes.

That would be outside the usual reception area: Nepal, Australia, New Zealand...


Thomas Prufer

Doesn't seem likely that they would choose such an unusual step as to
select a quarter-hour difference. But if they chose anything that wasn't
same-day, same-difference then they would need to manually adjust at
least some of the time. Building their own time signal would take years
to be adopted by manufacturers of clocks.

--
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Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

Chris French wrote:
In message , Chris Hogg
writes
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 12:53:41 +0000, Chris French
wrote:

In message , Chris Hogg
writes
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 12:06:36 +0000, Chris French
wrote:

A new Lidl has recently in our local town - a bit of a novelty as the
nearest Aldlidls are about 20 miles away.

Anyway, popped in today for the first time when passing, to see if
they
had any interesting things in their deals. I picked up a new radio
controlled clock as our old one died.

Thing is, it's it sets itself an hour fast. Instructions say it
uses the
DCF77 signal from Mainflingen in Germany, which presumably is giving
time in CET (GMT+1). Now I don't really know how the system works, but
the clocks obviously don't know where in the world they are so
presumably are set to pickup a specific signal.

I have a radio controlled watch, but on that I can set the time zone)

So are Lidl are selling a load of clocks which will set themselves
wrong
:-)

I also have a Lidl RC clock that gets it's time signal from Frankfurt.
It's an Auriol IAN 100706. Big flat round face, two rectangular
windows, wall-hanging, displays time, day, date, week no., temperature
and moon phase. Yours may be different. Somewhere in the instructions
or set-up routine there's an option to set the time zone. Just found
whe page 9. As they say, when all else fails, read the
instructions. :-)


Thanks, but I did once it didn't set it self correctly :-), it says
nothing about changing the time zone.

Mine is different model:

http://www.lidl.co.uk/en/our-offers-2491.htm?action=showDetail&id=29549


A quick web search suggest they have had this problem before with
similar clocks

Does this help? Different model, but the works may be similar
http://tinyurl.com/oj4cj2l
The instructions for mine are here http://tinyurl.com/hgx67my

Thanks, but no that doesn't help I'm afraid. (I think I'd found that
fixya page before).

That is all for digital clocks, as is yours, mine is analogue and based
on a different mechanism (unsurprisingly).

It's ok, AFAICS Lidl have cocked up, I'll take it back in a couple of days.
No need to return it, just pull off the hands having let it set itself 1
hr ahead of GMT and then replace the hands on GMT.
Simples

Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

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On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:05:26 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
ARW wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
F news@nowhere wrote:
Apparently most English want the above, but not Scots for some
reason?

Scottish farmers, if I remember correctly.

Do their cows tell the time, then?

They know when to go to sleep - at pasture bedtime

That's good. Know any udder ones?

You're milking this.

The farmer did.



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Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On 22/12/2015 19:26, Mathew Newton wrote:
On Monday, 21 December 2015 14:30:43 UTC, Chris French wrote:

Could you carefully remove the hour hand and refit it an hour previous?
It might be a keyed shaft to ease assembly (no calibration) however if
it is just a splined/interference shaft you might be okay.


Quite possibly, but I've got better things to do right now.

Ah, but think of the extra hour it'll give you... you might even have time to put your feet up if you finish early! ;-)



My radio controlled alarm clock has been an Hr out since end of BST
have to manually set

Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 07:42:33 -0000, ARW wrote:

wrote in message
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On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:05:26 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
ARW wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
F news@nowhere wrote:
Apparently most English want the above, but not Scots for some
reason?

Scottish farmers, if I remember correctly.

Do their cows tell the time, then?

They know when to go to sleep - at pasture bedtime

That's good. Know any udder ones?

You're milking this.

The farmer did.

"I wonder who discovered we could get milk from cows and what the **** did he think he was doing?!" -- Billy Connolly

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The Curl of the E Field + the partial time derivative of the B field = 0
The Divergence of the D field = the charge density
The Curl of the H field - the partial time derivative of the D field = the current density"

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Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:04:20 -0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
Phil L wrote:
And as now it only gets light at 8AM, if it were left like that, it
would still be dark when all the kids were going to school at 8:30,
this is why they changed it - an extra hour at 4pm is a waste of light,
all the kids are back home by then

When I were a kid in the NE of Scotland, we went to school in the dark as
well as coming home after dark for some of the winter.

But had daylight until after 11pm in mid summer.

It seems to be assumed that everybody's scared of the dark nowadays. We don't get dark anymore, because people have 1 billion watt headlamps on their cars, and the police don't seem to do a thing. Why don't they pull people over every time they're dazzled by one?

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Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 10:30:36 -0000, Dave Liquorice wrote:

On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:55:21 -0000, Phil L wrote:

1966, when the start of a trial saw the UK move to GMT+1 all
year.

The 1966 thing is what we need.

No we fing don't. That trial was awful from the POV of a six year
old, walking to school in the dark

Awww you poor thing, were there monsters behind the trees?

As a kid, I preferred light AFTER school, when I went out to play. Who gives a **** what it is when you're just going somewhere you don't want to be anyway?

wearing the issued Hi-viz waist coat.

Then don't wear it. You must be younger than me, because people hadn't gone crazy on those outlandish things when I were a lad.

The only thing I was "forced" to do was to get off the school bus at the correct stop (the stupid driver was concerned for my safety or something - I was only trying to go to a friend's house). From that day on I cycled to school and he didn't get his 10p fare.

Summer doesn't matter what time it is, there's loads of light.
Winter has not enough light, particularly in the evening.

If people want to have a BBQ on the patio in late December (and it
has been warm enough for that this year) fit the working hours to the
available daylight. The wage slave 9-5 is an hour offset from (GMT)
daylight, 8-4 would be a better fit and for those that want a BBQ do
7-3.

Changing the working hours is more of a pfaff than simply changing the time.

So we want the clocks FORWARDS not backwards in winter.

The clocks aren't backwards in winter, they are closer to siderial
time, ie noon is when the sun is highest in the sky.

Why does noon have to be then? In fact it shouldn't be. The highest sun should be in the middle of the period of time the average person is awake. IME, most people get up at 7 or 8 for work, or 9 or 10 on days off, then go to bed at 11 or 12. So midday should be 4pm.

Might aswell leave them forwards as summer doesn't matter then we
don't have to bother changing the clocks.

Apart from the spurious "light evenings" argument trading with europe

A light evening's argument trading? Is this a Monty Python sketch? :-)

is put forward as a reason for sticking with GMT+1 all year. Except
of course most of the EU moves to GMT+2 in the summer so that blows
that argument out of the water.

Make all of Europe the same, then we'd have the lighter evening too.

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Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:55:10 -0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article o.uk,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
1966, when the start of a trial saw the UK move to GMT+1 all
year.

The 1966 thing is what we need.

No we fing don't. That trial was awful from the POV of a six year
old, walking to school in the dark wearing the issued Hi-viz waist
coat.

The obvious snag is the time of daybreak changes dramatically across the
country. So what is fine in one part won't be in another.

Which is why we should centre the lightest part of the day around the middle of our waking hours.

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Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

En el artículo , rick rick_hughes@_remo
ve_btconnect.com escribió:

My radio controlled alarm clock has been an Hr out since end of BST
have to manually set

The cheapy I got from fleabay keeps perfect time, and what's more, the
seller gave me an automatic refund because they'd had several complaints
of the wall wart being noisy, so rather than wait for more complaints,
decided to proactively refund everyone who'd bought one.

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Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 12:10:32 PM UTC, Chris French wrote:
A new Lidl has recently in our local town - a bit of a novelty as the
nearest Aldlidls are about 20 miles away.

Anyway, popped in today for the first time when passing, to see if they
had any interesting things in their deals. I picked up a new radio
controlled clock as our old one died.

Thing is, it's it sets itself an hour fast. Instructions say it uses the
DCF77 signal from Mainflingen in Germany, which presumably is giving
time in CET (GMT+1). Now I don't really know how the system works, but
the clocks obviously don't know where in the world they are so
presumably are set to pickup a specific signal.

I have a radio controlled watch, but on that I can set the time zone)

So are Lidl are selling a load of clocks which will set themselves wrong
:-)
--
Chris French
These are from the UK, and are set to DCF signal, dont buy these for GB, you need MSF

Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On Thursday, 20 October 2016 04:33:27 UTC+1, wrote:
On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 12:10:32 PM UTC, Chris French wrote:
A new Lidl has recently in our local town - a bit of a novelty as the
nearest Aldlidls are about 20 miles away.

Anyway, popped in today for the first time when passing, to see if they
had any interesting things in their deals. I picked up a new radio
controlled clock as our old one died.

Thing is, it's it sets itself an hour fast. Instructions say it uses the
DCF77 signal from Mainflingen in Germany, which presumably is giving
time in CET (GMT+1). Now I don't really know how the system works, but
the clocks obviously don't know where in the world they are so
presumably are set to pickup a specific signal.

I have a radio controlled watch, but on that I can set the time zone)

So are Lidl are selling a load of clocks which will set themselves wrong
:-)
--
Chris French
These are from the UK, and are set to DCF signal, dont buy these for GB, you need MSF

It's not a problem as you just put in a -1h in the menu and it reads BST.

My watch on the left uses GPS and the one on the right uses DCF77.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtG5TTIXYAAS2KE.jpg

Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

In article ,
wrote:
On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 12:10:32 PM UTC, Chris French wrote:
A new Lidl has recently in our local town - a bit of a novelty as the
nearest Aldlidls are about 20 miles away.

Anyway, popped in today for the first time when passing, to see if they
had any interesting things in their deals. I picked up a new radio
controlled clock as our old one died.

Thing is, it's it sets itself an hour fast. Instructions say it uses
the DCF77 signal from Mainflingen in Germany, which presumably is
giving time in CET (GMT+1). Now I don't really know how the system
works, but the clocks obviously don't know where in the world they are
so presumably are set to pickup a specific signal.

I have a radio controlled watch, but on that I can set the time zone)

So are Lidl are selling a load of clocks which will set themselves
wrong
:-)
-- Chris French
These are from the UK, and are set to DCF signal, dont buy these for GB,
you need MSF

You can use DCF clocks in the UK, you just need to put in a 1hr offset.
We've had one in our Village Hall for years.

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Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On Thursday, 20 October 2016 05:33:16 UTC+1, charles wrote:
In article ,
wrote:
On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 12:10:32 PM UTC, Chris French wrote:
A new Lidl has recently in our local town - a bit of a novelty as the
nearest Aldlidls are about 20 miles away.

Anyway, popped in today for the first time when passing, to see if they
had any interesting things in their deals. I picked up a new radio
controlled clock as our old one died.

Thing is, it's it sets itself an hour fast. Instructions say it uses
the DCF77 signal from Mainflingen in Germany, which presumably is
giving time in CET (GMT+1). Now I don't really know how the system
works, but the clocks obviously don't know where in the world they are
so presumably are set to pickup a specific signal.

I have a radio controlled watch, but on that I can set the time zone)

So are Lidl are selling a load of clocks which will set themselves
wrong
:-)
-- Chris French
These are from the UK, and are set to DCF signal, dont buy these for GB,
you need MSF

You can use DCF clocks in the UK, you just need to put in a 1hr offset.
We've had one in our Village Hall for years.

I built my own 25 years ago for £6.

http://www.pvelectronics.co.uk/index...products_id=31

Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

Happy last Christmas.
Radio clocks with wrong time usually tuned to german signal.
Brian

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On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 12:10:32 PM UTC, Chris French wrote:
A new Lidl has recently in our local town - a bit of a novelty as the
nearest Aldlidls are about 20 miles away.

Anyway, popped in today for the first time when passing, to see if they
had any interesting things in their deals. I picked up a new radio
controlled clock as our old one died.

Thing is, it's it sets itself an hour fast. Instructions say it uses the
DCF77 signal from Mainflingen in Germany, which presumably is giving
time in CET (GMT+1). Now I don't really know how the system works, but
the clocks obviously don't know where in the world they are so
presumably are set to pickup a specific signal.

I have a radio controlled watch, but on that I can set the time zone)

So are Lidl are selling a load of clocks which will set themselves wrong
:-)
--
Chris French
These are from the UK, and are set to DCF signal, dont buy these for GB,
you need MSF

Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 20:33:25 -0700, uniray1 wrote:

These are from the UK,

Do you really mean that?



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On Thursday, 20 October 2016 10:21:29 UTC+1, Bob Eager wrote:
On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 20:33:25 -0700, uniray1 wrote:

These are from the UK,

Do you really mean that?

I brought one in maplin that uses German time, all you have to do then is advance it by one hour (depending on time of year of course)

Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On 20/10/2016 07:17, Brian Gaff wrote:
Happy last Christmas.
Radio clocks with wrong time usually tuned to german signal.
Brian

It isn't being tuned to the German DCF77 signal that is the problem it
is the unit having a default of Munich CET as its time zone. There is
usually a menu to set either GMT offset or longitude of a major city.

The latter more common on the ones that do local sunrise/sunset etc.

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Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On 20/10/2016 04:33, wrote:
sounds like something Trotter International Trading would sell

Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

Setting the time zone on a "auriol radio controlled clock" is as follows: 1: press the Down button for 3 seconds and an F will appear in upper right area:
2: press the Set button for 3 seconds and the Hour display should now be flashing:
3: adjust the time to your zone:
4: press Set to complete

Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 05:28:04 +0100, charles
wrote:

In article ,
wrote:
On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 12:10:32 PM UTC, Chris French wrote:
A new Lidl has recently in our local town - a bit of a novelty as the
nearest Aldlidls are about 20 miles away.

Anyway, popped in today for the first time when passing, to see if they
had any interesting things in their deals. I picked up a new radio
controlled clock as our old one died.

Thing is, it's it sets itself an hour fast. Instructions say it uses
the DCF77 signal from Mainflingen in Germany, which presumably is
giving time in CET (GMT+1). Now I don't really know how the system
works, but the clocks obviously don't know where in the world they are
so presumably are set to pickup a specific signal.

I have a radio controlled watch, but on that I can set the time zone)

So are Lidl are selling a load of clocks which will set themselves
wrong
:-)
-- Chris French
These are from the UK, and are set to DCF signal, dont buy these for GB,
you need MSF

You can use DCF clocks in the UK, you just need to put in a 1hr offset.
We've had one in our Village Hall for years.

I thought the autumn clock change date differed between us and
continental Europe. Is there not a period with no offset?

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Scott wrote:

I thought the autumn clock change date differed between us and
continental Europe. Is there not a period with no offset?

BST/CEST have started on the same date since 1981 and reverted to
GMT/CET on the same date since 1996.

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On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 12:23:45 +0100, Andy Burns
wrote:

Scott wrote:

I thought the autumn clock change date differed between us and
continental Europe. Is there not a period with no offset?

BST/CEST have started on the same date since 1981 and reverted to
GMT/CET on the same date since 1996.

Thanks. I did not appreciate that, nor did I appreciate that France
operated DST at all.

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In article , Scott
wrote:
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 05:28:04 +0100, charles
wrote:

In article ,
wrote:
On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 12:10:32 PM UTC, Chris French wrote:
A new Lidl has recently in our local town - a bit of a novelty as
the nearest Aldlidls are about 20 miles away.

Anyway, popped in today for the first time when passing, to see if
they had any interesting things in their deals. I picked up a new
radio controlled clock as our old one died.

Thing is, it's it sets itself an hour fast. Instructions say it uses
the DCF77 signal from Mainflingen in Germany, which presumably is
giving time in CET (GMT+1). Now I don't really know how the system
works, but the clocks obviously don't know where in the world they
are so presumably are set to pickup a specific signal.

I have a radio controlled watch, but on that I can set the time zone)

So are Lidl are selling a load of clocks which will set themselves
wrong
:-)
-- Chris French
These are from the UK, and are set to DCF signal, dont buy these for
GB, you need MSF

You can use DCF clocks in the UK, you just need to put in a 1hr offset.
We've had one in our Village Hall for years.

I thought the autumn clock change date differed between us and
continental Europe. Is there not a period with no offset?

there used to be such a time

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England

Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

Have I missed something?
Brian

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Setting the time zone on a "auriol radio controlled clock" is as follows:
1: press the Down button for 3 seconds and an F will appear in upper right
area:
2: press the Set button for 3 seconds and the Hour display should now be
flashing:
3: adjust the time to your zone:
4: press Set to complete

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Actually this thread goes back to 2015 as I recall, as I said previously am
I missing something here? Has there been a rip in the space time continuum
while I had my tea?
Brian

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"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Scott
wrote:
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 05:28:04 +0100, charles
wrote:

In article ,
wrote:
On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 12:10:32 PM UTC, Chris French wrote:
A new Lidl has recently in our local town - a bit of a novelty as
the nearest Aldlidls are about 20 miles away.

Anyway, popped in today for the first time when passing, to see if
they had any interesting things in their deals. I picked up a new
radio controlled clock as our old one died.

Thing is, it's it sets itself an hour fast. Instructions say it uses
the DCF77 signal from Mainflingen in Germany, which presumably is
giving time in CET (GMT+1). Now I don't really know how the system
works, but the clocks obviously don't know where in the world they
are so presumably are set to pickup a specific signal.

I have a radio controlled watch, but on that I can set the time
zone)

So are Lidl are selling a load of clocks which will set themselves
wrong
:-)
-- Chris French
These are from the UK, and are set to DCF signal, dont buy these for
GB, you need MSF

You can use DCF clocks in the UK, you just need to put in a 1hr offset.
We've had one in our Village Hall for years.

I thought the autumn clock change date differed between us and
continental Europe. Is there not a period with no offset?

there used to be such a time

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England

Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 17:55:06 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Actually this thread goes back to 2015 as I recall, as I said previously am
I missing something here? Has there been a rip in the space time continuum
while I had my tea?
Brian

Tuned to an extra-planetary time transmission rather than Mainflingen
as he thought?

Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

Brian Gaff wrote

Actually this thread goes back to 2015 as I recall, as I said previously
am I missing something here? Has there been a rip in the space time
continuum while I had my tea?

Yep, and you are about to fall thru the crack and end up back in the
stone age where they will stone you to death for being possessed.

Bye...

"charles" wrote in message
...
In article , Scott
wrote:
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 05:28:04 +0100, charles
wrote:

In article ,
wrote:
On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 12:10:32 PM UTC, Chris French wrote:
A new Lidl has recently in our local town - a bit of a novelty as
the nearest Aldlidls are about 20 miles away.

Anyway, popped in today for the first time when passing, to see if
they had any interesting things in their deals. I picked up a new
radio controlled clock as our old one died.

Thing is, it's it sets itself an hour fast. Instructions say it
uses
the DCF77 signal from Mainflingen in Germany, which presumably is
giving time in CET (GMT+1). Now I don't really know how the system
works, but the clocks obviously don't know where in the world they
are so presumably are set to pickup a specific signal.

I have a radio controlled watch, but on that I can set the time
zone)

So are Lidl are selling a load of clocks which will set themselves
wrong
:-)
-- Chris French
These are from the UK, and are set to DCF signal, dont buy these for
GB, you need MSF

You can use DCF clocks in the UK, you just need to put in a 1hr offset.
We've had one in our Village Hall for years.

I thought the autumn clock change date differed between us and
continental Europe. Is there not a period with no offset?

there used to be such a time

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England

Radio controlled clock an hour fast
 

replying to Chris Hogg, tonysuffolk wrote:
I've just changed the batteries on my IAN 100706 and it keeps setting the
clock an hour early, I don't suppose you know what it says on page 9, Ive lost
my instructions

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On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:44:05 UTC, tonysuffolk wrote:
replying to Chris Hogg, tonysuffolk wrote:
I've just changed the batteries on my IAN 100706 and it keeps setting the
clock an hour early, I don't suppose you know what it says on page 9, Ive lost
my instructions

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It is obviously a remainer clock as it's running to Central European Time.