Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

Did the 60 khz Ft. Collins time signal transmitter send out the
correct time signals this morning?

I've got 3 different radio-controlled clocks (atomix I think) and none
of them had the right time this morning.

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

"Radio Guy" wrote in message
...
Did the 60 khz Ft. Collins time signal transmitter send out the
correct time signals this morning?

I've got 3 different radio-controlled clocks (atomix I think) and none
of them had the right time this morning.

This year my clocks set ok but did not do so until about 10am. Last year it
took a week before my clocks got a strong enough signal to reset.

Dee, N8UZE

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

Radio Guy wrote:

Did the 60 khz Ft. Collins time signal transmitter send out the
correct time signals this morning?

I've got 3 different radio-controlled clocks (atomix I think) and none
of them had the right time this morning.

I have 13 RC clocks and 4 of them didn't catch the DST bit, but the
rest did.
--
Ron Hardin


On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

Radio Guy wrote:
Did the 60 khz Ft. Collins time signal transmitter send out the
correct time signals this morning?

I've got 3 different radio-controlled clocks (atomix I think) and none
of them had the right time this morning.

had 2 that reset....wris****ch did not until i forced it to
reset....other clock still hasn't reset.

here in dallas

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:58:56 -0400, Radio Guy wrote:

Did the 60 khz Ft. Collins time signal transmitter send out the
correct time signals this morning?

I've got 3 different radio-controlled clocks (atomix I think) and none
of them had the right time this morning.

My LaCross wris****ch reset correctly. My Compaq Presario desktop with
XP did not reset. My newer Toshiba laptop with XP did reset. I'm still
waiting for my Zenith vcr/dvd recorder to try and catch a signal.

Bob
k5qwg

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

Joe Analssandrini wrote: However,
tonight, at approximately 8:30 PM EDT, two of my analog models went a
bit "haywire" and reset themselves to Standard Time. We shall see if
they correct themselves later tonight. This has happened on several
occasions previously and I do not understand why.

La Crosse clocks have a firmware bug. When the daylight bit comes
on at UTC 00:00, the clocks are not allowed to reset until local 02:00,
some 7 or more hours later. So they remember it in a bit.

They do this fine (if you have several of the same model, watch them
do it in absolute lockstep).

There's a slight problem at 00:00 UTC the next night (8 PM EDST!)
when they find the daylight bit set but ``it's not 2am yet and there
hasn't been a full day of daylight time yet'' and it says, oops, it ought
to be standard time still, and they all reset back to standard time.

I've never been up to see what time they reset back to correct time
(midnight or 2am, UTC or standard or daylight time, 6 possibilities).

La Crosse, when consulted about this, claimed that the WWVB signal overloads
the clocks when they change times, translation we'd rather not replace
a million clocks on warrantee. But I find it endearing, happening to like
hardware screwups that you can figure out.

It will do the same thing in the fall, by the way. You get 6 time changes
a year with this chipset.

--
Ron Hardin


On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

On Mar 11, 3:58 pm, Radio Guy wrote:
Did the 60 khz Ft. Collins time signal transmitter send out the
correct time signals this morning?

I've got 3 different radio-controlled clocks (atomix I think) and none
of them had the right time this morning.

Five out of Six did OK.

Numb3r Six is on a Desk between a Computer and Printer
below a LCD Monitor and did not reset to DST only has
One Bar. Just put it next to a Window and got Three Bars.
Hit the "TS Seak" Button and will check it in the Morning.

dst waits for no one - and that is why . . .
many of us will be late this monday ~ RHF

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

"Bart Bailey" wrote in message
...
In posted on
Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:05:22 -0400, Dee Flint wrote: Begin


This year my clocks set ok but did not do so until about 10am. Last year
it
took a week before my clocks got a strong enough signal to reset.


My clock reset at the proper time just fine. But at local 7 PM Sunday
evening the clock rolled around back to 6 PM.
This Monday morning it was back to the correct DST.

Funny, it did the same rollforward, rollback, rollforward last year.

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

Bingo! That explains the behavior of my LaCrosse analog clock.
Thanks.

"Ron Hardin"

La Crosse clocks have a firmware bug. When the daylight bit comes
on at UTC 00:00, the clocks are not allowed to reset until local 02:00,
some 7 or more hours later. So they remember it in a bit.

They do this fine (if you have several of the same model, watch them
do it in absolute lockstep).

There's a slight problem at 00:00 UTC the next night (8 PM EDST!)
when they find the daylight bit set but ``it's not 2am yet and there
hasn't been a full day of daylight time yet'' and it says, oops, it ought
to be standard time still, and they all reset back to standard time.

I've never been up to see what time they reset back to correct time
(midnight or 2am, UTC or standard or daylight time, 6 possibilities).

La Crosse, when consulted about this, claimed that the WWVB signal
overloads
the clocks when they change times, translation we'd rather not replace
a million clocks on warrantee. But I find it endearing, happening to like
hardware screwups that you can figure out.

It will do the same thing in the fall, by the way. You get 6 time changes
a year with this chipset.

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

On Mar 11, 6:58 pm, Radio Guy wrote:
Did the 60 khz Ft. Collins time signal transmitter send out the
correct time signals this morning?

I've got 3 different radio-controlled clocks (atomix I think) and none
of them had the right time this morning.

My Radio Shack Atomic Clock reset itself properly.

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

HD Radio² wrote:
My clock reset at the proper time just fine. But at local 7 PM Sunday
evening the clock rolled around back to 6 PM.
This Monday morning it was back to the correct DST.

Funny, it did the same rollforward, rollback, rollforward last year.

It's a bug in La Crosse clocks. It comes from having to postpone
events to 2am local when the DST bit is noticed at UTC midnight. They screwed
up the logic so that it thinks it ought to be back on standard time
at the end of the first day of daylight time, as well. The same
thing happens in the fall.
--
Ron Hardin


On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

Radio Guy wrote:
Did the 60 khz Ft. Collins time signal transmitter send out the
correct time signals this morning?

I've got 3 different radio-controlled clocks (atomix I think) and none
of them had the right time this morning.

Mine switched last night, it usually takes mine a day or so
beyond the actual time change.

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

I figured as how I might as well set the time ahead on my old antique
tick tock clock on my living room wall,so about an hour ago I went
ahead on and I reached for that dial glass door and I opened it and I
swung the minute hand around to get the hour hand set ahead on one hour
ahead on.My computer's clock and my DirecTV clock and my WebTV clock did
it all automatically.
Atomic clocks,HUMPH!
cuhulin

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

On Mar 12, 8:18 pm, "RHF" wrote:
On Mar 12, 2:39 am, "RHF" wrote:





On Mar 11, 3:58 pm, Radio Guy wrote:

Did the 60 khz Ft. Collins time signal transmitter send out the
correct time signals this morning?

I've got 3 different radio-controlled clocks (atomix I think) and none
of them had the right time this morning.

Five out of Six did OK.

Numb3r Six is on a Desk between a Computer and Printer
below a LCD Monitor and did not reset to DST only has
One Bar. Just put it next to a Window and got Three Bars.
Hit the "TS Seak" Button and will check it in the Morning.

dst waits for no one - and that is why . . .
many of us will be late this monday ~ RHF
.
.
. .

OK - So now # 6 has sync'ed itself. ~ RHF

FWIW this Computer is a Dell Dimension 4700 with
the Windows XP [OS] and it did the new DST switch
over 'on-time' Sunday 11 March 2007.

My Atomic Time dual wall clock CW8U set with DST Sunday.

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

"Roadie" wrote in message
ups.com...
On Mar 11, 6:58 pm, Radio Guy wrote:
Did the 60 khz Ft. Collins time signal transmitter send out the
correct time signals this morning?

I've got 3 different radio-controlled clocks (atomix I think) and none
of them had the right time this morning.

My Radio Shack Atomic Clock reset itself properly.

with the punce gotcha he wonders why I simple don't bother to ty impoving my
spelling do u hav anyting cognet two say?




--
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Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

"Meat Plow" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:45:24 -0400, an old fiend wrote:


"Roadie" wrote in message
ups.com...
On Mar 11, 6:58 pm, Radio Guy wrote:
Did the 60 khz Ft. Collins time signal transmitter send out the
correct time signals this morning?

I've got 3 different radio-controlled clocks (atomix I think) and none
of them had the right time this morning.

My Radio Shack Atomic Clock reset itself properly.

with the punce gotcha he wonders why I simple don't bother to ty impoving
my
spelling do u hav anyting cognet two say?

You know Woger, you could come up with something new, this shtick of yours
is worn out.

--
Pierre Salinger Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker, June 2004

COOSN-266-06-25794


Gav has a huge meat plow indeed why did yuor dad name U atfer a penis?
http://ipunce.blogspot.com/2007/01/r...nd-i-psot.html



--
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Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

Lee Marvin in The Big Red One movie,,,,,
we don't murder the enemy,We KILL Them!

Lee Marvin sure is right.U.S.Military is about BREAKING things and
KILLING things.
cuhulin

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

On Mar 13, 5:29 pm, wrote:
On 13 Mar 2007 14:17:12 -0700, "Not Cocksucker Lloyd"

wrote:
On Mar 13, 5:05 pm, wrote:
On 13 Mar 2007 14:03:27 -0700, "Not Cocksucker Lloyd"

And you've yet to make one, ever.

wrong again woger try the truth at times

. You have no credibilty!

i have enough that you feel you must respond to my every post woger


BWHAHAHAHAHA What irony. You are the one flooding the group answering
every post and even getting in the middle of posts that don't concern
you and attacking others. More people have noticed your behavior than
just me.
You are too stupid to realize you are the group's bitch.

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

On Mar 14, 6:04 pm, wrote:
On 14 Mar 2007 14:51:06 -0700, "Andy the Perv Timberlake"

wrote:
You are the one flooding the group answering
every post and even getting in the middle of posts that don't concern
you and attacking others.

woger that is what NGs are for now

Only because you and Lloyd made them that way. Why doi you think you
are not welcome at qrz or in the moderated newsgroup.

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

On Mar 15, 9:50 am, "Andy the Perv Timberlake"
wrote:
On Mar 14, 6:04 pm, wrote:

On 14 Mar 2007 14:51:06 -0700, "Andy the Perv Timberlake"

wrote:
You are the one flooding the group answering
every post and even getting in the middle of posts that don't concern
you and attacking others.

woger that is what NGs are for now

Only because you and Lloyd made them that way.
you and Robeson

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

3 Uses for Unwanted School Lunches.
www.gleepy.net/writings/riv4/riv4hch4.html
cuhulin

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

an_old_friend wrote:
Only because you and Lloyd made them that way.
you and Robeson
*PLONK*

only in your dreams woger
 

On Mar 16, 4:19 pm, "Not Cocksucker Lloyd"
wrote:
On Mar 15, 12:40 pm, wrote:

I am welcome in the Moderated NG

Don't bet on it
why not?

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

I'm in Chicago area and only 3 of my 7 clocks set. They need more power or a
better antenna system. My friends at work also had problems with lack of
signal.


"Joe Analssandrini" wrote in message
oups.com...
On Mar 11, 6:58 pm, Radio Guy wrote:
Did the 60 khz Ft. Collins time signal transmitter send out the
correct time signals this morning?

I've got 3 different radio-controlled clocks (atomix I think) and none
of them had the right time this morning.

Hello All.

I have fifteen of these clocks. Two of them (both LaCrosse digital
models) are set to GMT and do not change when DST is incorporated. Of
the other thirteen (three analog models), all but two showed the
correct time this morning. One which did not catch the signal was one
of my analog clocks. I "forced" it to hunt for the signal around 10:30
AM EDT and, after finding it, did set itself correctly. However,
tonight, at approximately 8:30 PM EDT, two of my analog models went a
bit "haywire" and reset themselves to Standard Time. We shall see if
they correct themselves later tonight. This has happened on several
occasions previously and I do not understand why. All of the batteries
in my clocks are fresh. The last digital clock which did not show the
correct time this morning still, as of 11:30 PM EDT, had not corrected
the time, so I finally did so manually. (This particular clock had
never had this problem previously.) I live in New Jersey. I wish that
a second transmitter were incorporated somewhat closer to the eastern
part of the country as the signal from Ft. Collins is not completely
reliable here. Especially now, with the low sunspot count, one would
think that the signal on 60 kHz would travel farther and adjust the
clocks properly. Sadly, as evidenced by all writing here, this is not
the case.

Best,

Joe

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

It just depends. This year my clocks reset the same day. Last year, one
reset right away and the other took over a week.

Dee, N8UZE


"Only Fair" wrote in message
...
I'm in Chicago area and only 3 of my 7 clocks set. They need more power or
a better antenna system. My friends at work also had problems with lack of
signal.


"Joe Analssandrini" wrote in message
oups.com...
On Mar 11, 6:58 pm, Radio Guy wrote:
Did the 60 khz Ft. Collins time signal transmitter send out the
correct time signals this morning?

I've got 3 different radio-controlled clocks (atomix I think) and none
of them had the right time this morning.

Hello All.

I have fifteen of these clocks. Two of them (both LaCrosse digital
models) are set to GMT and do not change when DST is incorporated. Of
the other thirteen (three analog models), all but two showed the
correct time this morning. One which did not catch the signal was one
of my analog clocks. I "forced" it to hunt for the signal around 10:30
AM EDT and, after finding it, did set itself correctly. However,
tonight, at approximately 8:30 PM EDT, two of my analog models went a
bit "haywire" and reset themselves to Standard Time. We shall see if
they correct themselves later tonight. This has happened on several
occasions previously and I do not understand why. All of the batteries
in my clocks are fresh. The last digital clock which did not show the
correct time this morning still, as of 11:30 PM EDT, had not corrected
the time, so I finally did so manually. (This particular clock had
never had this problem previously.) I live in New Jersey. I wish that
a second transmitter were incorporated somewhat closer to the eastern
part of the country as the signal from Ft. Collins is not completely
reliable here. Especially now, with the low sunspot count, one would
think that the signal on 60 kHz would travel farther and adjust the
clocks properly. Sadly, as evidenced by all writing here, this is not
the case.

Best,

Joe

Radio controlled clocks and the new DST (mine didn't work)
 

Bart Bailey wrote:
In ps.com
posted on 11 Mar 2007 18:03:00 -0700, wf3h wrote: Begin

had 2 that reset....wris****ch did not until i forced it to
reset....other clock still hasn't reset.

Is your the Casio G-Shock Solar Atomic?
I leave mine out on the back porch at night so it will get some
recharging sunlight if I sleep in, also gets a more reliable signal.


it's a casio waveceptor...works fine....generally...had it about 7
years...