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Stupid Lidl clock..... Help!

  • 03-01-2012 10:16PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭


    Bought the facking Lidl projection alarm clock a few weeks back, it sets it own time via radio signal from Berlin which is unfortuantely 1hr fast as German time tends to be - Grand to invade Poland by but too annoying for me.

    - Receipt is long since lost, box is missing and Missus don't approve none :(


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    Just set it manually to be the correct time.

    Look for a Zone or Time Zone button, often that'll fix it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    "We're (almost definitely) switching to Central European Time"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    It took you a few weeks to notice your clock is an hour ahead?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    Lol! I misread the title! Thought you were giving out about your little cock :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    Ring Angela Merkel, she should be able to sort out something as simple as this.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    So set ur alarm an hour earlier ???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,265 ✭✭✭amacca


    It took you a few weeks to notice your clock is an hour ahead?

    on account of running an hour ahead an constantly missing things and getting flustered...it takes time to get to the bottom of an insidious problem like this..have a heart:D

    stupid lidl clock!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Mango Joe


    Lol! I misread the title! Thought you were giving out about your little cock :)


    Theres seventeen pages on that over in personal issues!!!




    - No theres no obvious time zone button and although you can seem to set it manually it then annoyingly goes back to German time when you aren't looking.

    Ist Wunderbar ya :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Lidl will probably take it back from you, irrespective of whether you have a receipt or not. They're great like that.
    Though I'd be very surprised if there isn't some way to adjust it :-/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Can you not just find an easier solution than returning this clock? Like move to Germany?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Mango Joe


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Can you not just find an easier solution than returning this clock? Like move to Germany?

    Wouldn't it be so ironic if I left my job, home, all of my friends and family and moved to a Hamburg bedsit and then found the receipt in the very last bag I unpacked?

    - Will probably happen too - Just my luck :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭dark_shadow


    We'll eventually end up doing everything Germany does anyway so might as well move the clocks forward too!! Get a few extra points on the bailout deal aswell:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    Time for a new missus.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭red menace




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,267 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Time for a new missus.

    Part-exchange her for a fraulein, she'll feel right at home.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Mango Joe


    red menace wrote: »

    Jesus - Though you were taking photos in through my bedroom window there for a minute - sadly no, thanks anyhow.....

    - Fraulein idea sounds nice, they always seem to be smiling and holding two large beer steins for your enjoyment - My Missus never does this :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,751 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Somebody on another forum said theirs had a button ? to select a city code eg LON for London which would do for you. But maybe that is not the model you have.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    red menace wrote: »

    That clock doesn't have a time zone setting according to its manual... although it does have a feature that projects the time onto your wall.

    I want one, but I don't know why...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,751 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    later10 wrote: »
    That clock doesn't have a time zone setting according to its manual... although it does have a feature that projects the time onto your wall.

    I want one, but I don't know why...

    There is no reason for a clock radio to have a time zone setting, you just set it to the correct time. The OP is asking about a watch which gets a radio signal from Germany once a day (I think) to keep it accurate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Mango Joe


    Somebody on another forum said theirs had a button ? to select a city code eg LON for London which would do for you. But maybe that is not the model you have.

    Found similar instructions when googling my issue earlier - No such button on mine though?
    later10 wrote: »
    That clock doesn't have a time zone setting according to its manual... although it does have a feature that projects the time onto your wall.

    I want one, but I don't know why...

    I used to want one - am close to giving you mine - Ironically this stupid thing is battery powered and only ever projects the time onto the ceiling/wall when you press a button on top - at which timethe main display lights up anyhow so you don't need to on your f'ing wall/ceiling also.

    Krauts :mad:
    There is no reason for a clock radio to have a time zone setting, you just set it to the correct time. The OP is asking about a watch which gets a radio signal from Germany once a day (I think) to keep it accurate.

    No - It is an Alarm clock - just gets its stupid time from the Oktoberfest......


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,751 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    OK my mistake. You probably know that there are ones which take their signal from a transmitter in England.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Just tippex the screen and write the correct time on it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭the keen edge


    later10 wrote: »
    "We're (almost definitely) switching to Central European Time"

    We are as in Londoners, right?.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭the keen edge


    Senna wrote: »
    Just tippex the screen and write the correct time on it.

    Lol.
    Then only look at it for 1 minute, at the correct time each day, brilliant!.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Oooooooo, look at the OP with his fancy pants, self updating clock.

    :p












































































    Theres also one of those time broadcast signal thingys in the UK, thats where my watch gets its signal from, or germany if I'm on the continent, try your settings or change it manually OP.

    ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 477 ✭✭Flyin Irishman


    Have you tried reading 'das instructions'? :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 599 ✭✭✭Armadillo


    Manually set the time and then wrap it in tin foil to block the radio signal....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭recyclebin


    Is this a real case of pics or GTFO?

    We could then find a manual and save Ireland from Germany.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    We are as in Londoners, right?.
    No.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭gigino


    You will know better than to buy anything in those centre aisles in Lidl again. Most of it is junk and is in a bin within 3 months. Stuff you do not need and which does not fit or work properly. You get what you pay for. I brought something back to them once and they only gave me some head office phone number to ring.
    Mango Joe wrote: »
    - Receipt is long since lost, box is missing and Missus don't approve none
    I bet they (lidl) will not do much for you either.


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