Clock's Go Back

At 11.50 GMT, Ceefax still an hour fast.

There is a technical problem in some regions with the timestamp, I have spoken to BBC Information who assure me the problem is being looked into. (How long can it take just to put a computer clock back an hour?) I suppose these things would be fixed quicker if they spent less time caring about their Digital services, as this is all Ceefax seems to be now, a copy of the BBCi service just in analogue teletext form.

My Freeview box is fine (can't check the Sky box as I'm not at home in London until later tonight), so I assume Antz, that your box takes the time from the Ceefax signal, as do some VCR's... so it won't change until the Ceefax problem is fixed.

I would suspect in most (if not all) companies, it's not classed as overtime. This is usually because the management class it as part of your normal shift. Don't forget, when the clocks go forward, you work one less hour if you're working, so it balances out.

I know that there's been a bit of a discussion on here and uk.tech.broadcast regarding the clock displays on VCRs, and the apparent unwillingness of some to change these manually.

There is however quite a critical underlying issue, that points to the TV broadcast infrastructure and technology of the early 1990s not having been surpassed technically by DTT and D-SAT in a number of respects, not least time dissemination.

A VCR display from the mid 90's is a trusted definitive source of correct time in many households, being driven by the PDC mechanism it will always be right, and has never (IMHO) broke to this extent.

Many (most) devices default to taking their time from the channel tuned in to position 1.

D-SAT and DTT receivers are not reliable time sources, and don't display HH:MM:SS, thus are NBG for setting other clocks.

: This is quite serious, and I wonder what the root cause was. Is Rugby OK?

Oh – and shame on the BBC for no putting a fault notice on the website, Ceefax or Radio4 News.

my Rugby synched clock hasn't changed, but my watch has

Only on TV Forum could a discussion about the clocks going back last three pages.

Yeh

...... but as the late, great and now sadly lamented Sir Peter Parker used to say " Its the crumbling edge of qualty!"

I thought you meant Spiderman...

[quote="Whataday"]Only on TV Forum could a discussion about the clocks going back last three pages.[/quote

That's nothing when I see how many pages get generated on some of the threads in the newsroom!

Ceefax timestamp appears to be being gradually corrected now across the country...

Quite bizarre in the early hours - "FAC-LINE1"/Colour Bars during the Learning Zone with the DOG just visible over the top, which disappeared...

...only to reappear again during Ceefax in a different aspect ratio, after a section on CBBC had been played out with Ceefax overlaying it, but the end credits of the shown cartoon overlaying all of that....

http://www.duke1401.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/30-10-05-GMT1.jpghttp://www.duke1401.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/30-10-05-GMT2.jpg
http://www.duke1401.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/30-10-05-GMT3.jpg

I'm guessing said occurrences are linked to this business of clocks going back by 1 hour, what was the cause?