Clock's Go Back

It's something newbies always ask when they're faced with their first clock-change shift! The BBC have always said that staff working the extra hour do not get paid for it, because they are just as likely to work one less hour when the clocks go forward. Nonsense really, as there's no guarantee that you get scheduled to be on nights for both clock changes. Still, (at the moment anyway!) BBC staff who work shifts do get an allowance for unpredictability and get additional payment for working ovrenight, so that can be seen as some compensation.

I'm not sure about the current status of Ceefax but at 5.00 (GMT) this morning it was running correctly and not an hour ahead in BST.

Ceefax In Vision was correct time down here, Ceefax proper was an hour fast.

tedjrr said
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.

A few months ago my vcr clock said 05:58 at 7am one morning, and it wasn't when the clocks got changed.

seen news 24 just take the clock off screen saying 01:59 and replacing it a minute later saying 01:00

I hate to say this, but what do you expect them to do? Or am I not getting this...

not sure, stay on screen and suddenly jump from 01:59 to 01:00 or see the minutes wizz backwards to zero.

talking of odd clocks bigger breakfast used to take the 3 digit clock off screen at 9:59 and put up another one with four digits at 10:00, until they got a new one with 4 digits.

Not sure why they had to keep it on screen all morning, it used to block out the credits for the programmes and get in the way

en anglais...

Although I didn't watch this year, have noticed in the past that BBC N24 simply continue showing the clock, which automatically changes from 01:59 to 01:00.

Basically it's only software programmed to alter automatically, there is nothing special about it. After all, your PC will alter it's internal time as programmed for up to the next few decades I think.

Sky+'s EPG simply shows 1:00 twice, and doesn't seem to get confused if you ask for more than 2 programmes starting at 1:00am, as long as all 3 are not all the "same" 1:00am.

Out of interest, did everything crash when we changed millennium or did it just change automatically?

Not much, there was loads of hype but all that seemed to happen was that many computers reset the time to 1980.

matrix wrote

en anglais...

not sure which bit you don't understand,

The original BB clock had 3 digits i.e 7:00 which was fine when they finished at 9:00, when they did the bigger breakfast and ran until 12:30 the needed a clock with four digits for after 10:00 so they used two clocks first and then eventually got a new clock with 4 digits which showed 07:00 instead of 7:00

also when they did the bigger breakfast in the summer and were on from 7:00 to 12:30 the clock remained onscreen all morning and got in the way of the programmes titles or credits eg:

Saved By The Be10:07
staring Dustin Dia10:08

etc

that's what I meant.

Looks like TV Forum has slipped back into BST, clock is an hour ahead for me.