DAB Clock set back 1 hour A WEEK EARLY!!!

Big Bad Bob · 18-10-2009, 11:22 AM

I've woken up this morning (Sunday 18th October) here in the UK to find that my DAB clock radio has set the clock back one hour! Just to make sure I wasn't going mad, I've check at Europe Summer Time and it should indeed be NEXT sunday that the clocks go back.
I've tried setting the clock forward an hour manually, but the damned thing just resets itself back to what it thinks is the "correct" time!

Anyone else see this today?

Bob

huy · 18-10-2009, 11:30 AM

My clock was set forward 3 hours yesterday... but I suspect that my flat mate was up to no good!

Trollslayer · 18-10-2009, 11:58 AM

Sounds like a software bug in that model.

lox18 · 18-10-2009, 12:36 PM

Mine's done the same

(Pure Chronos II)

What model do you have Big Bad Bob?

Just seen another post on DigitalSpy, possibly a broadcast issue

Big Bad Bob · 18-10-2009, 1:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lox18

Mine's done the same

(Pure Chronos II)

What model do you have Big Bad Bob?

Just seen another post on DigitalSpy, possibly a broadcast issue

Mine's a Pure Chronos iDock, and it has now reverted to displaying the correct time (14.14hrs as I write this). Looks like it was a broadcast issue and has been sorted out. I just don't want to be woken up tomorrow morning to discover I'm an hour late for work!

lox18 · 18-10-2009, 2:28 PM

Yep mine's sorted itself now as well

Big Bad Bob · 18-10-2009, 3:10 PM

*UPDATE*
I've been in touch with someone at www.uk-dab.info about this, and he says that engineers at some transmitter sites were doing a test for the clock change due next Sunday. He'll be collating info from users who e-mail him to try and work out which transmitters were affected, and hopefully prevent it happening again!

chriswyatt · 20-10-2009, 10:23 AM

This happened to me as well, good thing it was on a Sunday.

RegM · 23-10-2009, 8:03 AM

Mine has done this today (Friday) two days early. It's an Evoke 3. I've mailed www.uk-dab.info to see if they have an explanation.

tieguy · 23-10-2009, 9:50 AM

Mine's also a Pure Chronos iDock. I've now been late for work twice this week. Yesterday (Thursday) and today.

chriswyatt · 24-10-2009, 8:12 PM

So, it's obviously planned because it's a test isn't it? And surely the tests need only take say half-an-hour, preferably not in the morning when people are getting up. This all seems a bit stupid to me.

Prav · 25-10-2009, 9:02 AM

My Pure Evoke 3 has consistently been 1 minute slow - until the other day when it was showed the exact time to the minute (coinciding with pips!). Unfortunately it was an hour fast!!

Now it has corrected to GMT, but again is precisely 1 minute slow!