Clocks going back early

xper

So I have an old radio alarm clock on my bedside table which adjusts to/from daylight savings time automatically. So sometime overnight it went all Game of Thrones and decided that winter was here and put itself an hour back, two days early. Did this happen to anyone else?

I believe the function is controlled by a radio signal. Not sure who looks after that in Ireland, RTE? Did someone **** up or did this just happen to my piece of junk?

Fortunately, I had my alarm set on my phone and not the bedside clock so despite some initial bleary-eyed confusion, I managed not to be late for work.


Exciting stuff, I know.

marcbrophy

I checked out npl.co.uk who would be responsible for the signal in the British Isles, but there doesn't seem to be any mention of an issue on their site.

http://www.npl.co.uk/science-technology/time-frequency/products-and-services/time/msf-radio-time-signal

I looked at their twitter @NPL too, but nothing!

I have a few RC clocks at home, but won't be able to see if they are wrong until later this evening!

branie2

My clock radio is fine

Are Am Eye

Yes. Alarm bells are ringing.

Are Am Eye

branie2 wrote: »

My clock radio is fine

His clock might be ok. It seems like the satellite is not working.

server down

The clocks went back last Saturday 28th Oct

murpho999

marcbrophy wrote: »

I checked out npl.co.uk who would be responsible for the signal in the British Isles, but there doesn't seem to be any mention of an issue on their site.

http://www.npl.co.uk/science-technology/time-frequency/products-and-services/time/msf-radio-time-signal

I looked at their twitter @NPL too, but nothing!

I have a few RC clocks at home, but won't be able to see if they are wrong until later this evening!

Where is this? I do not recognise this term.

Time to bring back Dublin Mean Time, which was Irish time until 1916 until that, too, went the way of other distinctive Irish things under the British Act of Union/colonisation.

Better still bring in some new EU time just to make the eejits feel more under siege.

Are Am Eye

Deleted User wrote: »

Time to bring back Dublin Mean Time, which was Irish time until 1916

Yes. But just the 26 counties. The UK can stay in their own Time Zone.


#Hard Border

server down

Deleted User wrote: »

Time to bring back Dublin Mean Time, which was Irish time until 1916 until that, too, went the way of other distinctive Irish things under the British Act of Union/colonisation.

Better still bring in some new EU time just to make the eejits feel more under siege.

Dublin mean time applied, I assume, to Dublin only.

I like DST, we gain evening sunlight and we have plenty in the morning in Summer.

silverharp

Central European time would suit us better, Sundown nearly 11PM in the Summer and be done with stupid sun up time at 5AM

Dravokivich

murpho999 wrote: »

Where is this? I do not recognise this term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_British_Isles



It's not a political reference btw.

recyclebin

Should be renamed the British and Irish Isles in my opinion.

Are Am Eye

recyclebin wrote: »

Should be renamed the British and Irish Isles in my opinion.

The Irish and British Isles.

Steve F

I speak to a few Americans and I'm always a little surprised and amused that some of them think that Ireland is near London :0)

stimpson

Are Am Eye wrote: »

The Irish and British Isles.

Britain and Ireland/Ireland and Britain. Everyone knows they are ****ing islands.

lawred2

recyclebin wrote: »

Should be renamed the British and Irish Isles in my opinion.

it's not an official term for anything anywhere either way so I wouldn't get too worried about it...

topper75

I like Irish Isles.

Let's go with that.

Anyway - clocks back - fine. Clocks ought to go forward at end of Feb though, not March.

Zebra3

Dravokivich wrote: »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_British_Isles



It's not a political reference btw.

Of course it’s a political reference. Otherwise why would the Channel Islands (just off the French coast) be included?

lawred2

Zebra3 wrote: »

Of course it’s a political reference. Otherwise why would the Channel Islands (just off the French coast) be included?

what do you mean by political reference?

marcbrophy

Shup ye gowls, the lot of ye! :pac:

corner of hells

Are we putting the clocks back or changing the name of something ?

I'm thinking Sky Sports Land or maybe Orchard Thief Islands.

murpho999

Dravokivich wrote: »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_British_Isles



It's not a political reference btw.

That's what people always say but it's 100% politically loaded.

People say it's a 'geographical term" but it was coined by the British when they ruled here.

It would be like calling the Iberian peninsula " The Spanish Peninsula" or Scandanavia 'The Swedish Peninsula". That doesn't happen.

Dravokivich

Dravokivich wrote: »

British Isles.... It's not a political reference btw.

Well, let's see, the Irish people misruled over for centuries by the British state and its army in the name of that same British state and British monarch, and "British Isles", a term which can only be dated in the English language to the year 1577 when an English imperialist named John Dee claimed ownership of Ireland for the Tudor crown (i.e. it's political in origin), is not political after all that? It's just a harmless name which suddenly has no imperialist/supremacist/jingoistic connotations? How magically convenient to try and normalise the jingoistic terminology of British colonial rule in Ireland. Is the Swastika also still some harmless ancient Asian symbol of good fortune, or do you accept that political events have changed its meaning?

I've yet to meet any Irish person in real life who A) uses the term "British Isles" or uses the term and is not a poppy-wearing, Brexit-supporting arch apologist for the thugs and thuggery of the British Empire in Ireland and across this planet.

British Isles naming dispute

Are Am Eye

stimpson wrote: »

Britain and Ireland/Ireland and Britain. Everyone knows they are ****ing islands.

I was just joking. Don't be an a22hole like some kind of english person or something.

snowflaker

Steve F wrote: »

I speak to a few Americans and I'm always a little surprised and amused that some of them think that Ireland is near London :0)

Relative to American cities, it is!

_Kaiser_

murpho999 wrote: »

That's what people always say but it's 100% politically loaded.

People say it's a 'geographical term" but it was coined by the British when they ruled here.

It would be like calling the Iberian peninsula " The Spanish Peninsula" or Scandanavia 'The Swedish Peninsula". That doesn't happen.

Who cares? Are we REALLY not past this 800 years stuff yet?

corner of hells

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

murpho999 wrote: »

That's what people always say but it's 100% politically loaded.

People say it's a 'geographical term" but it was coined by the British when they ruled here.

It would be like calling the Iberian peninsula " The Spanish Peninsula" or Scandanavia 'The Swedish Peninsula". That doesn't happen.

Who cares? Are we REALLY not past this 800 years stuff yet?

Don't you feckin' start , the Poppy thread is just around the corner.

Working class heroes

Another riveting, thought provoking thread ruined.

murpho999

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Who cares? Are we REALLY not past this 800 years stuff yet?

Of course we're not, look at how the island is still partitioned.

Also wanting to have our island's Irish identity recognised as it warrants is nothing to do with an 800 year hang up.

Have you never been abroad where 95% of people think we're British?

gozunda

server down wrote: »

The clocks went back last Saturday 28th Oct

Did your mammy not tell to stop messing with your Time Machine ...

corner of hells

Who cares ? , I don't lose sleep over it

_Kaiser_

murpho999 wrote: »

Of course we're not, look at how the island is still partitioned.

Also wanting to have our island's Irish identity recognised as it warrants is nothing to do with an 800 year hang up.

Have you never been abroad where 95% of people think we're British?

We're a small island on the edge of Europe. Despite the "everyone loves the Irish" notion, it's not surprising most people abroad aren't aware of the internal politics.

As for partition itself.. it happened in a different age when conquest of the weak by the strong and the seizing of territory by force WAS politics, and it happened all over the world. If fate had been different, are you telling me that the Irish of those days wouldn't have done the same?

Besides, I'd rather peace and relative stability in the North than the days of the Troubles, wouldn't you, and isn't there a clause in the Good Friday Agreement to allow for a change in the current status of NI should the majority wish it? Yet successive opinion polls show more in favour of remaining in the UK.

The better question though is how this is at all relevant to a thread about the clocks going back?

begbysback

Unbelievable - even a query about clocks going back becomes a republican issue after about 6 posts

Esel

begbysback wrote: »

Unbelievable - even a query about clocks going back becomes a republican issue after about 6 posts

Remember to set your clock back 800 years.

server down

topper75 wrote: »

I like Irish Isles.

Let's go with that.

Anyway - clocks back - fine. Clocks ought to go forward at end of Feb though, not March.

Absolutely. 5 months makes no sense.

Gerrup Outta Dat!

Dravokivich wrote: »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_British_Isles



It's not a political reference btw.

Horribly offensive map

Esel

Gerrup Outta Dat! wrote: »

Horribly offensive map

I'm seeing red too.

youreadthat

Gerrup Outta Dat! wrote: »

Horribly offensive map

I know, poor doggerland. #neverforget

server down

The terms “British isles” is as offensive as the Irish Sea or English Channel.

Gerrup Outta Dat!

server down wrote: »

The terms “British isles” is as offensive as the Irish Sea or English Channel.

Seas are not sovereign territory.

Would be ok to call the Netherlands “Nazi-Netherlands”?

Cee-Jay-Cee

Steve F wrote: »

I speak to a few Americans and I'm always a little surprised and amused that some of them think that Ireland is near London :0)

How ridiculous, everyone knows London is near Leitrim.

server down

Gerrup Outta Dat! wrote: »

Seas are not sovereign territory.

Would be ok to call the Netherlands “Nazi-Netherlands”?

What’s your feeling about Clocks going back early, though?

server down

NAZI CLOCKS IN GOING BACK EARLY OUTRAGE!

Etc

Gerrup Outta Dat! wrote: »

Seas are not sovereign territory.

Would be ok to call the Netherlands “Nazi-Netherlands”?

No, it would be just fcuking stupid.

NickNickleby

Gerrup Outta Dat! wrote: »

Horribly offensive map

Hahaha, not getting much support in your other thread, so you came here for companionship.

Beanntraigheach

Deleted User wrote: »

Well, let's see, the Irish people misruled over for centuries by the British state and its army in the name of that same British state and British monarch, and "British Isles", a term which can only be dated in the English language to the year 1577 when an English imperialist named John Dee claimed ownership of Ireland for the Tudor crown (i.e. it's political in origin), is not political after all that? It's just a harmless name which suddenly has no imperialist/supremacist/jingoistic connotations? How magically convenient to try and normalise the jingoistic terminology of British colonial rule in Ireland. Is the Swastika also still some harmless ancient Asian symbol of good fortune, or do you accept that political events have changed its meaning?

I've yet to meet any Irish person in real life who A) uses the term "British Isles" or uses the term and is not a poppy-wearing, Brexit-supporting arch apologist for the thugs and thuggery of the British Empire in Ireland and across this planet.

British Isles naming dispute

Didn't Dee coin the term 'British Empire' in the same work?

circadian

server down wrote: »

The clocks went back last Saturday 28th Oct

#sed -i 's/\OPTIONS="u\b/& -x/' /etc/sysconfig/ntpd

#service ntpd restart
Your server should be grand after that.

NickNickleby

circadian wrote: »

#sed -i 's/\OPTIONS="u\b/& -x/' /etc/sysconfig/ntpd

#service ntpd restart
Your server should be grand after that.

I love how appropriate (in a way) your username is to this thread .

keith_sixteen

murpho999 wrote: »

That's what people always say but it's 100% politically loaded.

People say it's a 'geographical term" but it was coined by the British when they ruled here.

It would be like calling the Iberian peninsula " The Spanish Peninsula" or Scandanavia 'The Swedish Peninsula". That doesn't happen.

Cry all you want about it, but the British Isles is the widely known and accepted form and that will never change.

alan1963

keith_sixteen wrote: »

Cry all you want about it, but the British Isles is the widely known and accepted form and that will never change.

the term used these days is"These islands".