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Originally posted by Sysman View PostThe computer and my telly set top box both made the change at 2 am. Except for the microwave*, oven and my wristwatch, everything else switches automatically.
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Railway labourers working the night shift when the clocks change get paid the same regardless of whether it is 7 hours (spring) or 9 hours (autumn). No-one wants to to get the latter shift, of coure.
Originally posted by Pogle View Post... - currently waxing Gibbous in case you're interested.
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Originally posted by Sysman View PostI think that here it goes forward at 2. Otherwise the pubs would have to shut an hour earlier
The club owner made a point of staying open till 3:00am in the autumn.
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I've got an alarm/DAB radio thingy at home that resets automatically..... which I use every day (well when I am there)... I set my wrist watch by this.
I have also got a few dozen other thingys (DVDs, Ovens, Microwaves, Hi-Fis, Clocks etc) that possibly an hour out for 1/2 the year or more likely are never correct cos I never use them to find the time.......
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Originally posted by NickFitz View Post(It seems obvious that one should be able to move the clock both forwards and backwards, yet moving a digital clock embedded in a consumer appliance backwards is often not possible; if this is due to a limitation of the underlying hardware, Zeity might be able to explain it.)
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Originally posted by Pogle View PostMy clock is one of those radio controlled ones that re-sets itself. Its great, it even tells you the phases of the moon - currently waxing Gibbous in case you're interested.
The computer and my telly set top box both made the change at 2 am. Except for the microwave*, oven and my wristwatch, everything else switches automatically.
* I don't know what it is about the wretched microwave, but I need to get the instructions out twice a year (and when there's a power cut) to change the time on that.
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Originally posted by Pogle View PostMy clock is one of those radio controlled ones that re-sets itself. Its great, it even tells you the phases of the moon - currently waxing Gibbous in case you're interested.
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My clock is one of those radio controlled ones that re-sets itself. Its great, it even tells you the phases of the moon - currently waxing Gibbous in case you're interested.
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostDon't forget to switch to British Summer Time tonight, i.e. to wind your chronographs forward at 01.00 a.m. tomorrow (Sunday) morning, for UK subjects that are currently at GMT + 0. So that will mean you will have an hour's less kip before getting up to 'watch' the F1 racing at the ungoldly hour of 6 a.m. BST (or 5 a.m. GMT in old money) on Sunday morning, though the race doesn't doesn't kick off until 7.00 BST (and a bit later for Hamilton). The good news is that the days will seem to last longer from now on, which isn't a bad price to pay for a bit less sleep tonight.
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I remember reading somewhere of a VCR that had a special button to set the clock back one hour in the autumn, to cater for the change from Daylight Saving Time (or BST, as we call it in the remaining bit of the civilised world). The manufacturers were castigated for not having another button to move it one hour forward in the spring.
Of course, the clock-setting functions already allowed one to move the time forward by one hour, which is why the designers saw no need to provide the inverse of the functionality they had provided to cater for the "special case" of autumn - which was only a special case because one could only advance the time on the clock, not move it back.
(It seems obvious that one should be able to move the clock both forwards and backwards, yet moving a digital clock embedded in a consumer appliance backwards is often not possible; if this is due to a limitation of the underlying hardware, Zeity might be able to explain it.)
The lesson, as I understand it, is that if you provide a user interface for performing a reversible operation in a certain context, you need to provide for the user to reverse that operation in the same context.
By distinguishing the act of setting the clock back one hour for the end of DST, the designers had created an expectation in the users' mental model of the appliance that there would be a way of setting the clock forward at the start of DST. The usual mechanism for setting the clock forward was not part of the user's mental model of how the machine dealt with DST, which was an activity that, due to the incorporation of the special button, appeared to have its own mechanism; and thus the user was confused
(Can anybody tell that I've been re-reading The Design of Everyday Things recently? )
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Originally posted by norrahe View PostAs long as you don't fall asleep halfway through the grand prix
Originally posted by Zippy View PostDrewster - set yoiur watch back 1000 years.
how can I wind my watch back now!
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostDon't forget to switch to British Summer Time tonight, i.e. to wind your chronographs forward at 01.00 a.m. tomorrow (Sunday) morning, for UK subjects that are currently at GMT + 0.
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