Greenwich Mean Time.

nesssie1702

Anybody got any idea what would cause the clock on my PC to run slowly? I keep synchronising it to set it to the correct time and the next time I go to use the PC, it's lost time again?

Any ideas anyone?

spud17

nesssie1702 wrote: »

Anybody got any idea what would cause the clock on my PC to run slowly? I keep synchronising it to set it to the correct time and the next time I go to use the PC, it's lost time again?

Any ideas anyone?

Change the CMOS battery. Mostly cr2032 even in Maplins only about £2.99

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000239.htm

Leopard

barak wrote: »

Thanks - I hadn't realised that and I'm in Sussex.

(1) My bargain £39 Eurochron German DSF watch isn't now much use as the battery seems to lose its connection if I wear it, but lying on my bedside table it switched to GMT on time.

(2) So also - strangely perhaps - did my cheap KLIK (probably Chinese) MSF kitchen wall clock, but...

(3) my bedside "Science Museum" alarm clock - presumably also MSF - didn't manage it for 48 hours.

Incidentally, I've just looked at the Creative Watch Co site and there it says -

When replacing the battery in a radio controlled clock DO NOT use Duracell batteries as they can cause malfunctioning of the clock movement.

Both mine have Duracell batteries. I'd be interested to know the reasoning behind that advice. :undecided

We have an Actim radio-controlled clock, mounted on the wall of our first-floor bathroom, opposite a north-facing window. It synchs to the MSF-60 signal from Anthorn. I've always put Duracell batteries in it and it has never had any problems.

Same goes for several Oregon Scientific radio-controlled weather clocks and travel clocks we have. I've always used Duracells in them!

I'm as intrigued as you to know why it's suggested that one shouldn't. :huh:

Money_Grabber13579

Leopard wrote: »

We have an Actim radio-controlled clock, mounted on the wall of our first-floor bathroom, opposite a north-facing window. It synchs to the MSF-60 signal from Anthorn. I've always put Duracell batteries in it and it has never had any problems.

Same goes for several Oregon Scientific radio-controlled weather clocks and travel clocks we have. I've always used Duracells in them!

I'm as intrigued as you to know why it's suggested that one shouldn't. :huh:

Perhaps Duracell and Creative don't just get on the best? Maybe a little bit of a company feud?:p

isofa

How on earth can a brand of batteries cause a problem?! Best myth I've ever heard on this forum.

Leopard

Best myth I've ever heard (with endless repetition) on this forum is that, for what you get (including its operating system and the supplied free software), Apple computers are poor value.

It's followed closely by the assertions that a sealed-in battery is a better thing to have than one you can swap-out for a new or fully-charged one and that an SD card slot is an adequate replacement for an ExpressCard port. (I trust a certain admirer of Epictetus is blushing, even if our favourite expatriate in Arkansas is resolutely unrepentant. ).

Came pretty close to it myself, though, with the glossy-screen Samsung NC10 saga. But, when I looked further into this, it transpired that Samsung did produce a range of NC10s with glossy screens: they were mostly supplied to mobile 'phone companies to use in promotional giveaways and it was those that I examined and toyed with in Vodaphone and O2 shops.



PS. A mere four days into Winter Time, MSE's IT wizards appear finally to discovered that the rest of Britain has been using it since last Sunday morning. :T
We must learn to be thankful for small mercies. Perhaps they were confounded by being confronted with instructions written in literate English.

kwikbreaks

barak wrote: »

Incidentally, I've just looked at the Creative Watch Co site and there it says -

When replacing the battery in a radio controlled clock DO NOT use Duracell batteries as they can cause malfunctioning of the clock movement.

Both mine have Duracell batteries. I'd be interested to know the reasoning behind that advice. :undecided

I think I detect a distinct aroma of male bovine excrement.

redux

Leopard wrote: »

PS. A mere four days into Winter Time, MSE's IT wizards appear finally to discovered that the rest of Britain has been using it since last Sunday morning. :T
We must learn to be thankful for small mercies. Perhaps they were confounded by being confronted with instructions written in literate English.

A mere 4 days later, have you stopped complaining about something you didn't observe all that well?

Contemporaneous boards and threads can be seen in which it's quite obvious that the clock went back at exactly the right time, for example a sequence of posts on a certain thread includes some at 12.56 AM, 1.09 AM, 1.44 AM, 1.57 AM, 1.32 AM, 1.47 AM, shown in that order.

That was clear enough at the time, and can still be looked back and found now. Perhaps you'd reevaluate your own powers of observation before hurling unwarranted personal abuse at the forum staff's professional abilities, particularly as they would be logged in and therefore wouldn't notice the issue.

Leopard

redux wrote: »

Well, seeing as this seems to be a test of observation, let's reconsider the OP:

redux,

Fine by me. You can put it under an electron microscope, so far as I'm concerned.

If you do, I still wouldn't count on your ability to notice what is blindingly obvious to anyone else. Namely, that it is entirely devoid of any of the things you accuse it of containing in the final paragraph of your (now, apparently, deleleted) posting – randomly or otherwise. Those, conspicuously, are the product of your own febrile imagination.

The facts are perfectly simple. Whilst logged out, I looked at the index page of this sub-forum at 7:30 pm on the evening of Sunday, 25 October – some eighteen and a half hours after Winter Time had commenced – and observed that it was still using British Summer Time. From the index page, I logged in and started a new thread to point that out. End of story.

The fact that, four days later, the forum was still displaying new postings in British Summer Time to those not logged-in is justification enough for the criticism I made subsequently when nothing had been done to correct the situation.

The other failings to which you allude only entered the equation because you saw fit to turn it into an issue and I used them to illustrate my own point.

None of them are imagined; they're all still there today, for everyone to see, even if your own severe personal shortcomings prevent you from being able to perceive them.

And, upon the subject of observation, I would draw to your attention that when you edit one of your own postings you are expected by this site (and by the other members of this forum) to furnish you reasons for doing so. But perhaps you've never noticed that.

Grammar and basic literacy are only deemed unimportant by the fe¢kless. They are founded upon mental discipline and the ability to think logically. What people write reveals to others how well their mind works. One only has to look at any posting by :A espresso :A, for example, to realise that one is dealing with somebody who is intelligent, informed, precise, accurate and possessed of the ability to address a problem reliably and analytically. One only has to look at a posting by :rolleyes: davester :rolleyes: , for example, to realise that (extremely amiable though he is ) if one had any sense one would not entrust to him any task that needed to be done properly and conscientiously.

It's worth pointing out, moreover, that, since computer programming relies unforgivingly upon syntax, if an organisation employs IT staff who are careless and illiterate it will, sooner or later, suffer from precisely the sort of problems that plague the MSE site technically and repeatedly.

You, yourself, may have an encyclopaedic knowledge of mobile 'phone rates but your incapacity to construct and punctuate a sentence correctly betrays your carelessness and acts as a warning to others that you lack sufficient diligence for them to be able to rely on what you state.

The fact that you get your rocks off by being serially abusive to everyone is a separate issue entirely and one that speaks crudely for itself.

As you point out (in your now deleted post), your own observations are suffused with redundancy so I suggest that you stop wasting everybody else's time with them.

You suffer chronically from a condition expressed pithily but memorably by Robin Williams in the film "Good Morning, Vietnam!"

[Deleted User]

Just to complete the timeline, at what point did you bring the issue to the attention of somebody within the MSE team?