Clocks going forward

[Doobs]

A clock is pointless unless it tells the correct time. May as well set it correctly.

Not at all, we only need to know the minutes, we don't need a timepiece to know the hour.

It is July, your 3 year old is shouting in your ear "it is morning daddy", do I look at the minute or hour hand before deciding whether to tell her to go back to bed?  FWIW I have no oven by my bed and the car is parked outside.

[Tal]

A clock is pointless unless it tells the correct time. May as well set it correctly.

Not at all, we only need to know the minutes, we don't need a timepiece to know the hour.

I had a watch repaired last year. When I went back to collect it, following its return from the factory in Switzerland (I'm assured...Could have been a workhouse in Small Heath for all I know), I was given a piece of card which declared that the time was correct to one one-hundred-thousandth of a second.

A few weeks later, the clocks went forward and I had to change it manually.

Suppose I could have sent it back to Switzerland. That would have been the Posh EV play.

I'm surprised you aren't a timepiece man, tikay. I would have had you as someone who would while away many a happy day at the Shepherd Gate

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[The Camel]

A clock is pointless unless it tells the correct time. May as well set it correctly.

Not at all, we only need to know the minutes, we don't need a timepiece to know the hour.

I had a watch repaired last year. When I went back to collect it, following its return from the factory in Switzerland (I'm assured...Could have been a workhouse in Small Heath for all I know), I was given a piece of card which declared that the time was correct to one one-hundred-thousandth of a second.

A few weeks later, the clocks went forward and I had to change it manually.

Suppose I could have sent it back to Switzerland. That would have been the Posh EV play.

I'm surprised you aren't a timepiece man, tikay. I would have had you as someone who would while away many a happy day at the Shepherd Gate

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Bloody hell, if the watch was THAT correct you had to leave it on the old time FFS.

Where is your requisite OCD?

[Tal]

A clock is pointless unless it tells the correct time. May as well set it correctly.

Not at all, we only need to know the minutes, we don't need a timepiece to know the hour.

I had a watch repaired last year. When I went back to collect it, following its return from the factory in Switzerland (I'm assured...Could have been a workhouse in Small Heath for all I know), I was given a piece of card which declared that the time was correct to one one-hundred-thousandth of a second.

A few weeks later, the clocks went forward and I had to change it manually.

Suppose I could have sent it back to Switzerland. That would have been the Posh EV play.

I'm surprised you aren't a timepiece man, tikay. I would have had you as someone who would while away many a happy day at the Shepherd Gate

Click to see full-size image.

Bloody hell, if the watch was THAT correct you had to leave it on the old time FFS.

Where is your requisite OCD?

I could have kept it in a drawer for six months til the clocks went back, but I would have only wanted to pay half the price for it.

If you wear a watch that's an hour wrong, you'll have a hard time convincing people it's better that it's virtually perfectly accurate...an hour ago.

I feel like writing to the Esquire Agony Aunt, as I know AA Gill would know what to do. Not sure about this new one at GQ, mind.

[The Camel]

A clock is pointless unless it tells the correct time. May as well set it correctly.

Not at all, we only need to know the minutes, we don't need a timepiece to know the hour.

I had a watch repaired last year. When I went back to collect it, following its return from the factory in Switzerland (I'm assured...Could have been a workhouse in Small Heath for all I know), I was given a piece of card which declared that the time was correct to one one-hundred-thousandth of a second.

A few weeks later, the clocks went forward and I had to change it manually.

Suppose I could have sent it back to Switzerland. That would have been the Posh EV play.

I'm surprised you aren't a timepiece man, tikay. I would have had you as someone who would while away many a happy day at the Shepherd Gate

Click to see full-size image.

Bloody hell, if the watch was THAT correct you had to leave it on the old time FFS.

Where is your requisite OCD?

I could have kept it in a drawer for six months til the clocks went back, but I would have only wanted to pay half the price for it.

If you wear a watch that's an hour wrong, you'll have a hard time convincing people it's better that it's virtually perfectly accurate...an hour ago.

I feel like writing to the GQ Agony Aunt. I know AA Gill would have known what to do. Not sure about this new one, mind.

There is absolutely no chance I would have altered that timepiece.

How can you improve on perfection?

I'd rather buy a swatch for six months than change the time.

[Tal]

Whoah there, Larry!



Maybe the solution is to buy one for summer and one for winter?

[Junior Senior]

Whoah there, Larry!



Maybe the solution is to buy one for summer and one for winter?

Thats the balla play!

[Tal]

Whoah there, Larry!



Maybe the solution is to buy one for summer and one for winter?

Thats the balla play!

Or move to Iceland, where they're on GMT but don't follow daylight saving in the summer.

[MintTrav]

Why does anyone wear a watch nowadays? Or have a clock in their house? As mentioned above, the time is everywhere. It's on my computer at work, my computer at home, plus numerous appliances. When I'm out, it's on my phone and in the car, plus available many other ways on the one day I might not have my phone with me and need to know the time.

Watches are redundant.

[Tal]

Why does anyone wear a watch nowadays? Or have a clock in their house? As mentioned above, the time is everywhere. It's on my computer at work, my computer at home, plus numerous appliances. When I'm out, it's on my phone and in the car, plus available many other ways on the one day I might not have my phone with me and need to know the time.

Watches are redundant.

Watches are beautiful. Without one, a gentleman is incomplete.

All those you've listed above are digital, where analogue is clearly better.

[tikay]

Why does anyone wear a watch nowadays? Or have a clock in their house? As mentioned above, the time is everywhere. It's on my computer at work, my computer at home, plus numerous appliances. When I'm out, it's on my phone and in the car, plus available many other ways on the one day I might not have my phone with me and need to know the time.

Watches are redundant.

Watches are beautiful. Without one, a gentleman is incomplete.

All those you've listed above are digital, where analogue is clearly better.

Ahh, that is a different matter altogether, & you are correct, no Gentleman should ever be seen without a wristwatch. It would be a greater crime than walking around in public without wearing socks, a habit frequently practised by common people.

[Tal]

Why does anyone wear a watch nowadays? Or have a clock in their house? As mentioned above, the time is everywhere. It's on my computer at work, my computer at home, plus numerous appliances. When I'm out, it's on my phone and in the car, plus available many other ways on the one day I might not have my phone with me and need to know the time.

Watches are redundant.

Watches are beautiful. Without one, a gentleman is incomplete.

All those you've listed above are digital, where analogue is clearly better.

Ahh, that is a different matter altogether, & you are correct, no Gentleman should ever be seen without a wristwatch. It would be a greater crime than walking around in public without wearing socks, a habit frequently practised by common people.

Quite so.

[RED-DOG]

Why does anyone wear a watch nowadays? Or have a clock in their house? As mentioned above, the time is everywhere. It's on my computer at work, my computer at home, plus numerous appliances. When I'm out, it's on my phone and in the car, plus available many other ways on the one day I might not have my phone with me and need to know the time.

Watches are redundant.

Watches are beautiful. Without one, a gentleman is incomplete.

All those you've listed above are digital, where analogue is clearly better.

Ahh, that is a different matter altogether, & you are correct, no Gentleman should ever be seen without a wristwatch. It would be a greater crime than walking around in public without wearing socks, a habit frequently practised by common people.

Quite so.

I'm fascinated by Wristwatches. If I had an analyst he would say it was caused by a childhood spent reading out of date copies of National Geographic while being totally boracic.

Anyway, I spent a lifetime trying to find the perfect watch, which for me means accurate, maintenance free and virtually indestructible.

I found it, bought it and wore it for the first time on 09/11/2001. Back then it cost < £300 and is not much more now.

Save for a few seconds here and there, it's been on my wrist 24/7 ever since.

Click to see full-size image.

[The Camel]

Why does anyone wear a watch nowadays? Or have a clock in their house? As mentioned above, the time is everywhere. It's on my computer at work, my computer at home, plus numerous appliances. When I'm out, it's on my phone and in the car, plus available many other ways on the one day I might not have my phone with me and need to know the time.

Watches are redundant.

Watches are beautiful. Without one, a gentleman is incomplete.

All those you've listed above are digital, where analogue is clearly better.

Ahh, that is a different matter altogether, & you are correct, no Gentleman should ever be seen without a wristwatch. It would be a greater crime than walking around in public without wearing socks, a habit frequently practised by common people.

Quite so.

I'm fascinated by Wristwatches. If I had an analyst he would say it was caused by a childhood spent reading out of date copies of National Geographic while being totally boracic.

Anyway, I spent a lifetime trying to find the perfect watch, which for me means accurate, maintenance free and virtually indestructible.

I found it, bought it and wore it for the first time on 09/11/2001. Back then it cost < £300 and is not much more now.

Save for a few seconds here and there, it's been on my wrist 24/7 ever since.

Click to see full-size image.

Do you wear it in bed?

In the bath/shower?

[RED-DOG]

Yes.