temporal confusion

[blissfish]

longshot14 and I have one of those self-setting digital clocks on our living room wall.  It has decided that it will no longer follow the time that the guvmint has set for us to follow, and insists on remaining one hour ahead.  We've turned DST on, turned it back off, completely reset it, taken out the batteries, and kicked it a few times.  No luck - still an hour fast.

This is messing with me.  My computer says one time, and I start planning based on that.  I look up at the wall and OMG I'm late!!!  Oh, wait.  Or I plan on the wall clock time, and end up way early.

I'm used to having a sense of time that is somewhat...flexible, but this is just ridiculous.

Time to throw away the clock, methinks.

Comments

[longshot14.livejournal.com]

We could set it to Mountain Standard time, which would set the clock an hour back from its inflated time.

I just hope we can work out the issue so we can keep it - I've had that clock for so very long and really like it :)

[blissfish.livejournal.com]

Well, I think the main benefit of having an atomic clock is not having to reset it. We can get a new atomic with the current DST laws in its programming and not have to do this song and dance twice a year with an obstinate clock.

[blissfish.livejournal.com]

Nope, resetting to MST didn't work. It's toast.

[in-quinecorners.livejournal.com]

I'm curious, from a technology geek perspective, exactly what went wrong with it -- I don't know exactly how those things work, but I would have thought if anything that it would have been off by an hour for a week (the extra week of DST we had for the first time this year, at the end), and then been correct after that. I wonder if there's some way to analyze the problem...(I know you don't care, and indeed there's no reason you should :) )