Reminder - CLOCKS .....
22 October 2015, 01:33 PM
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Reminder - CLOCKS .....
.... go forward 1 hour this weekend.
I don't know about you lot but I get fed up setting my alarm for 2am on the Sunday to go around changing all the clocks in the house!
I don't know about you lot but I get fed up setting my alarm for 2am on the Sunday to go around changing all the clocks in the house!
22 October 2015, 05:07 PM
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The dreaded clock change on the farm.... and it's even worse when you have to turn them BACK! I've got 25 time clocks on the farm and half of them are analog. With the analog ones you can't turn them backwards so you have to turn them all the way around virtually 23 hours which takes bloody ages! 
Also, a 1 hour change is too dramatic for poultry. You can't just get rid of an hour and expect the chickens to be OK. I have to adjust the time clocks by 20 minutes over a weeks period to gradually get the livestock used to the new time change! I did 20 mins on Tues, I'll do another 20 on Saturday and the final 20 next Tuesday. That's a total of 75 time clocks I have to mess around with....
Also, a 1 hour change is too dramatic for poultry. You can't just get rid of an hour and expect the chickens to be OK. I have to adjust the time clocks by 20 minutes over a weeks period to gradually get the livestock used to the new time change! I did 20 mins on Tues, I'll do another 20 on Saturday and the final 20 next Tuesday. That's a total of 75 time clocks I have to mess around with....
Last edited by LSherratt; 22 October 2015 at 05:10 PM.
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23 October 2015, 05:08 PM
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The dreaded clock change on the farm.... and it's even worse when you have to turn them BACK! I've got 25 time clocks on the farm and half of them are analog. With the analog ones you can't turn them backwards so you have to turn them all the way around virtually 23 hours which takes bloody ages!
Also, a 1 hour change is too dramatic for poultry. You can't just get rid of an hour and expect the chickens to be OK. I have to adjust the time clocks by 20 minutes over a weeks period to gradually get the livestock used to the new time change! I did 20 mins on Tues, I'll do another 20 on Saturday and the final 20 next Tuesday. That's a total of 75 time clocks I have to mess around with....
Also, a 1 hour change is too dramatic for poultry. You can't just get rid of an hour and expect the chickens to be OK. I have to adjust the time clocks by 20 minutes over a weeks period to gradually get the livestock used to the new time change! I did 20 mins on Tues, I'll do another 20 on Saturday and the final 20 next Tuesday. That's a total of 75 time clocks I have to mess around with....
23 October 2015, 07:19 PM
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. So what you've said wouldn't work as for example, if the lights in the sheds go off at 8pm, when you put the clocks back, technically it would be as if they go off at 7pm which means the chickens would lose an hours lighting.
Last edited by LSherratt; 23 October 2015 at 07:22 PM.
23 October 2015, 08:56 PM
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24 October 2015, 07:44 AM
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£800 oven and I still have set the clock after every power cut and season change. 
Its about time every modern device did DST autonomously; I had a 1980's casio that could.
And why are modern clocks not as accurate? Be it digital, analogue, in a watch, phone or computer? The analogue quartz clock in my 33yr old Jag hasn't been touched for years (can't be arsed change the hour back/forward as its only used in the summer) and its still accurate within a minute. Compared to my iphone and PC, which when I disabled the auto time update was atrocious and can be five minutes ahead/behind in the space of a month, hell even a £1500 swiss watch doesn't keep time as well, gaining/losing a upto a minute a month!
Its about time every modern device did DST autonomously; I had a 1980's casio that could.
And why are modern clocks not as accurate? Be it digital, analogue, in a watch, phone or computer? The analogue quartz clock in my 33yr old Jag hasn't been touched for years (can't be arsed change the hour back/forward as its only used in the summer) and its still accurate within a minute. Compared to my iphone and PC, which when I disabled the auto time update was atrocious and can be five minutes ahead/behind in the space of a month, hell even a £1500 swiss watch doesn't keep time as well, gaining/losing a upto a minute a month!
24 October 2015, 08:10 AM
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£800 oven and I still have set the clock after every power cut and season change.
Its about time every modern device did DST autonomously; I had a 1980's casio that could.
And why are modern clocks not as accurate? Be it digital, analogue, in a watch, phone or computer? The analogue quartz clock in my 33yr old Jag hasn't been touched for years (can't be arsed change the hour back/forward as its only used in the summer) and its still accurate within a minute. Compared to my iphone and PC, which when I disabled the auto time update was atrocious and can be five minutes ahead/behind in the space of a month, hell even a £1500 swiss watch doesn't keep time as well, gaining/losing a upto a minute a month!
Its about time every modern device did DST autonomously; I had a 1980's casio that could.
And why are modern clocks not as accurate? Be it digital, analogue, in a watch, phone or computer? The analogue quartz clock in my 33yr old Jag hasn't been touched for years (can't be arsed change the hour back/forward as its only used in the summer) and its still accurate within a minute. Compared to my iphone and PC, which when I disabled the auto time update was atrocious and can be five minutes ahead/behind in the space of a month, hell even a £1500 swiss watch doesn't keep time as well, gaining/losing a upto a minute a month!
24 October 2015, 08:11 AM
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£800 oven and I still have set the clock after every power cut and season change.
Its about time every modern device did DST autonomously; I had a 1980's casio that could.
And why are modern clocks not as accurate? Be it digital, analogue, in a watch, phone or computer? The analogue quartz clock in my 33yr old Jag hasn't been touched for years (can't be arsed change the hour back/forward as its only used in the summer) and its still accurate within a minute. Compared to my iphone and PC, which when I disabled the auto time update was atrocious and can be five minutes ahead/behind in the space of a month, hell even a £1500 swiss watch doesn't keep time as well, gaining/losing a upto a minute a month!
Its about time every modern device did DST autonomously; I had a 1980's casio that could.
And why are modern clocks not as accurate? Be it digital, analogue, in a watch, phone or computer? The analogue quartz clock in my 33yr old Jag hasn't been touched for years (can't be arsed change the hour back/forward as its only used in the summer) and its still accurate within a minute. Compared to my iphone and PC, which when I disabled the auto time update was atrocious and can be five minutes ahead/behind in the space of a month, hell even a £1500 swiss watch doesn't keep time as well, gaining/losing a upto a minute a month!
24 October 2015, 10:59 AM
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Don't forget, put it forward one hour:-)
