Bedside clock losing time

mrochester · 19 Nov 2017 at 07:29

I’ve just returned from holiday after a week away and plugged my bedside clock/light back in and set the time. A few hours later, when I went to bed, I noticed the bedside clock was now showing an hour and 45 minutes slow. I reset the time again before going to sleep.

In the morning, I once again found the clock an hour and a half behind.

Does anyone know what causes clocks to lose time in this way? It was working perfectly before I went on holiday. Is it for the bin?

Many thanks.

M.

wedrum · 19 Nov 2017 at 07:31

Aliens

Rannoch · 19 Nov 2017 at 07:58

Go back to bed, it’s only 01.15

MooMoo444 · 19 Nov 2017 at 08:03

It's linking up with your body clock

JBuk · 19 Nov 2017 at 08:08

mrochester said:
. Is it for the bin?

No, it’s perfectly fine :confused:

Vonhelmet · 19 Nov 2017 at 08:09

What type of clock?

mrochester · 19 Nov 2017 at 08:15

Vonhelmet said:
What type of clock?

It’s a Lumie Bodyclock.

Vonhelmet · 19 Nov 2017 at 08:19

mrochester said:
It’s a Lumie Bodyclock.

Googling turns up similar complaints on their forums.

How a digital clock can lose time is absolutely beyond me.

Narj · 19 Nov 2017 at 08:38

Look under your bed, there may be a singularity distorting the space/time continuum.

Big Spender · 19 Nov 2017 at 08:40

I had one of these aswell and it would lose time by a few minutes overnight

Hotwired · 19 Nov 2017 at 08:43

Must be using a fancy clock signal from a piece of cheese instead of ancient technology like a quartz crystal.

bainbridge · 19 Nov 2017 at 08:49

Easy. Just add 1 hour and 45 minutes to whatever the time is whenever you look at it.

What Could go wrong?

Adam_151 · 19 Nov 2017 at 09:13

All I can think of, is there any switch/setting for 50/60hz that you may have knocked? Some plug in digital clocks generate the timebase from the mains frequency, if it is counting a second every 60 cycles, rather than every 50, then it would loose 12 minutes an hour

LOAM · 19 Nov 2017 at 09:26

Your ass is so massive its warping space time

UTmaniac · 19 Nov 2017 at 09:43

Give Fox Mulder and Dana Scully a call.

Whitewater · 19 Nov 2017 at 09:45

Is it possible that the clock has travelled close to the speed of light at any point?

DoneADougalOnSofa · 19 Nov 2017 at 10:03

Reset the BIOS, disable C-states and Speedstep, extra 0.2 on the vCore.

Marky · 19 Nov 2017 at 10:42

It has one job and it can’t even do that! I say chuck it

Haze · 19 Nov 2017 at 15:44

I am glad my life is not so special i need to make a thread because my alarm clock is broken

Hades · 19 Nov 2017 at 15:51

Maybe your phone is sad that you didn't take it on holiday?

Time for a new clock.