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Title: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: euronerd on March 26, 2006, 02:41:39
Everything has a bl**dy clock in it! >:(

Geoff.
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: TEL on March 26, 2006, 07:07:55
I have ten clocks around the house not so bad when you have to put them forward. When they go back time stands still for an hour ???
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: amanda21 on March 26, 2006, 08:10:52
Actually more and more I find some re-set themselves - we have an alarm clock that does that which is great and the computer does it now I've just noticed.  The video clock is never set because we can't figure out how to record(!) so that just leaves the lounge, kitchen, oven, microwave, numerous phones and watches, the cars, daughters' radio alarms......... :o
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: lorna on March 26, 2006, 10:23:06
Yipee. Only three for me. One in lounge, one watch,one radioalarm, oh mustn't forget the TV.. My Ma-in-law couldn't stand a clock ticking, we would often hunt for the clock, sometimes stuffed in the middle of a pile of ironing. It was a guessing game and she would forget where she put the da*n thing ;D
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on March 26, 2006, 10:28:39
Five. The kids sort themselves out, and the computer resets itself. I catch up on the strays later.
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: Curryandchips on March 26, 2006, 14:39:16
I think I set five ... two normal clocks, the alarm, the central heating, and my watch. My watch is actually a dual display, analogue/digital, so the digital stays on BST, as does the car clock ... I believe the video takes its signal off teletext, so resets ... I don't with my mobile phone either.
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: rosebud on March 26, 2006, 14:40:44
Hello Lorna, i can not stand a ticking clock neither, have been known to throw one through a window, (it was open)it drives me to hell a tick tick tick,GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

Just the lounge and the kitchen, also cooker  clock a must have! upstairs radio alarm that will do for me, i used to years ago hide a ticking clock wrapped up and under Ron`s  side of the bed Hahaha!!! weirdo i know. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: grawrc on March 26, 2006, 15:33:36
Conveniently the grandfather clock stopped about midnight, so we'll wind it up again later today. I've adjusted 7 clockes. watches so far. Always manage to miss a few. ;D
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: busy_lizzie on March 26, 2006, 15:48:11
We had eight, including our wrist watches.  All done now as well as the chiming clock in the hall, which is the awkward one.  :) busy_lizzie
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: katynewbie on March 26, 2006, 16:55:17
;D

Four. Mob phone, the one my Mum gave me, the radio/alarm and the kitchen clock. NONE of them tick...can't stand it, feels like i can hear my life ticking away!!!!!

;D
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: lorna on March 26, 2006, 17:22:40
Rosebud. Glad window was open ;D ;D . I can't go to sleep if a tap is dripping or if I have had my shower just before going to bed the flipping thing in the ceiling (to clear condensation) keeps whirring away. Drives me mad, oh for those youthful days when nothing worried us ;D ;D
Title: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: DolphinGarden on March 26, 2006, 18:00:16
Just my mobile-which I was surprised didn't settle itself, and my alarm clock, which as I also cannot abide the hint of a tick, is out on the landing window cill.

As a novelty, I let OH do her alarm clock and living room clock as she is from a country that does not change the clocks either in spring or autumn.


Ha, I'm always reminded of the time about 15 years ago(sharp intake of breath) I lived in San Francisco, and this Mexican/American expressed surprise that everything was out of kilter this fine Sunday morning.(he was in his 50's). I explained that all the clocks change across the US, all over the world, incl the southern hemisphere to prepare for winter etc.  He reply, which I shall cherish for ever, was ...



" oh, I thought it was only California"
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: Mrs Ava on March 26, 2006, 18:19:58
ahem...we forgot until we were out and about listening to the radio....then the penny dropped!  ::)
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: Hyacinth on March 26, 2006, 21:08:09
I've done some, but some I'm not going to bother with, and some I'll leave until I really need them. I've re-set: 3 watches, CH timer, TEASMAID (praps the most important clock in this rip-van-winkle house ::)), clock/radio, so far 6 clocks, CELLPHONE (my watch when I'm working=most important), car clock...not had to set PC and video recorder.......can't be bothered to set clocks on 2 music centres cos I never look at them, shan't set 2 Walkman-type contraptions til I need them in the garden in the summer.

LOVE ticking clocks & my pendulum wall-mounted clock is angled so that the pendulum hits the casing..........before I had it I bought a metronome ;D ;D which constantly 'ticked' away....

My lad - and I sometimes wonder if I was given the right child at birth.....well, it happens, doesn't it?......can't stand ANY ticking and reckons that even the digital clock by the spare bed is TOO LOUD  ???

NOT HAD TO RE-SET.....a sittingroom clock which is always set for Summer Time ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: Amazin on March 26, 2006, 21:41:54
I love the sound of a gently ticking clock -  except the one by the bed. It clashes with my heart valve and I find myself trying to synchronise them.

;D
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: Hyacinth on March 26, 2006, 23:24:38
Quote from: Amazin on March 26, 2006, 21:41:54
I love the sound of a gently ticking clock -  except the one by the bed. It clashes with my heart valve and I find myself trying to synchronise them.

;D

Imagine if the clock were battery operated and................. ;D ;D
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: moonbells on March 27, 2006, 00:29:16
Um. Suspect a lot of you couldn't stand my house! I love ticking clocks (but not chiming ones!)

Have two ticking wallclocks in the lounge at opposite ends, one in the kitchen, one in the bathroom and one where I'm sitting now typing. Two wristwatches. Of the non-tickers, the central heating, the video, microwave and cooker.

Car not yet done as I've not been out today and it's hiding in its garage.

The one in this room I love - found it in a jeweller in Austria when I went skiing for the first time, and just had to get it! It's blue and black, looks like it's been designed by the folk who made the film Tron, has stylised mountains and a grid, two searchlights and a starfield.  Good clock for a science fiction addict :)

Hang on... what's the point of digital cameras if...

(http://www.moonbells.com/A4Apics/clock.jpg)

moonbells
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: Dan 2 on March 27, 2006, 16:27:03
You think you've done them all then...

















































...theres always one more!  ;D
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: Hyacinth on March 27, 2006, 16:32:49
Bloody true, that, Dan.........fergot to reset me fax machine :(
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: Dan 2 on March 27, 2006, 16:34:14
I didn't ste my watch until 3:33pm today!  ;D
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: Anne Robertson on March 27, 2006, 19:52:26
The only one I can't set is the central heating one and my OH is away for 2 weeks so we're waking up in the freezing cold till I switch it on manually!
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: euronerd on March 27, 2006, 20:42:19
Haven't done the OH's car yet. It does all sorts of other things besides tell the time. I'm waiting for my niece to visit.  ;D

Geoff.
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: grawrc on March 27, 2006, 21:20:18
What's more: I don't care! if the time is right or not.
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: moonbells on March 27, 2006, 23:11:51
Quote from: ani on March 27, 2006, 19:52:26
The only one I can't set is the central heating one and my OH is away for 2 weeks so we're waking up in the freezing cold till I switch it on manually!

feed your make and model into Google and somewhere should have an online manual...

Ours is a standard digital timer, and it's a one-button press to change to summer time. 

moonbells
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: loulou on March 28, 2006, 12:12:54
reading this i have realise that the video,heating,girls bedroom,living room,all need changing i did my phone TV dose its self and oh uses alarm clock not me and thinking about it theirs got to be at least one iv forgot  ???any serjestion
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: euronerd on March 28, 2006, 16:22:22
Dig camera and answering machine are two I always forget loulou.

Geoff.
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: lorna on March 28, 2006, 17:11:31
Digi camera, video camera and the message thing on the phone. I don't forget them I just don't know how to do it ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: grawrc on March 28, 2006, 18:21:35
Oh my! Ididn't even think about the digi camera. :-[
Title: Re: Technophiles: how many clocks have you set?
Post by: Dan 2 on March 28, 2006, 18:31:44
liekwise!!!!!!!!