Time question.

[Bod ...]

OK I bought a new AMS clock when on France. It was set at French time.

Drilled hole to put on wall this morning.

Mrs Bod looked at manual on how to set BST.

Take battery out for 1 minute then put it back in and it will use DCF signal to change to correct time.

It does its thing and all hands go round at an extra fast speed until it gets to the correct time. Unfortunately for me it's French correct time.

Surely it's using the local DCF signal.

 

[Roy Bloom]

OK I bought a new AMS clock when on France. It was set at French time.

Drilled hole to put on wall this morning.

Mrs Bod looked at manual on how to set BST.

Take battery out for 1 minute then put it back in and it will use DCF signal to change to correct time.

It does its thing and all hands go round at an extra fast speed until it gets to the correct time. Unfortunately for me it's French correct time.

Surely it's using the local DCF signal.

Take it back and ask for a UK one.

 

[securespark]

Once reset, leave it for several hours. It should eventually change to the local time.

 

[Roy Bloom]

Rotate it to the left by about 15º

 

[Bod ...]

Rotate it to the left by about 15º

I'm so happy I never put you on ignore

 

[Bod ...]

 

[RandomGrinch]

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I hope that fixing screw hasn't gone into a "Safe Zone"!

 

[Bod ...]

I hope that fixing screw hasn't gone into a "Safe Zone"!

Fixing screw goes where it should.

It goes through its sequence out of place.

 

[Bod ...]

I hope that fixing screw hasn't gone into a "Safe Zone"!

Your fooling me . I fell.

 

[bernardgreen]

Surely it's using the local DCF signal.

The DCF time signal is for main land Europe and is GMT+1. For the UK you need the MSF time signal which is GMT

MSF radio time signal

The MSF radio signal is a dedicated standard-frequency and time broadcast that provides an accurate and reliable source of UK civil time.

www.npl.co.uk

The DCF is transmitted on 77.5 kHz and the MSF is transmitted on 60 kHz

There might be a way to alter the tuning from the DCF time signal to the MSF time signal.

There may be a switch labelled 77 - 60 to select MSF or DCF

I believe the data formats are the same.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Being French it's probably on strike or more likely on a go slow.

 

[JohnD]

Ask the makers how to set it to Lisbon time.

 

[Bod ...]

Ask the makers how to set it to Lisbon time.

Lisbon is on GMT but don't they go on the same time as Europe?

 

[Bod ...]

There are no switches and no resets. Looks like our kitchen is on french time from nowvo

 

[Bod ...]

Maybe need yo get a GMT mechanism