GMT

[Roc Walker]

My B2 is linked into the internet but is still showing time as BST.  I am in the UK.  I thought it would pick up the correct time from the internet but it doesn't.  Any ideas?

[crap...@gmail.com]

In settings there is a facility to set a number of offset hours (in this case minus 1 hour).

Sadly the B2 doesn't do this automatically.

[David Richards]

It's not too difficult to do an automatic time change for the UK/Europe/US. It gets more difficult to do for anywhere in the world. It would be nice to have, but there should still be an option to have an automatic change or not.

DR.

[Susan D]

Hi, can you tell me where in the settings this is? And really? Everything else manages to collect the correct time but this is something that goes in the same bracket as the microwave, oven and car clock that you have to manually amend it? That just beggers belief if so.

[Brian R]

Using the 'big knob' go to 'settings' then rotate two clicks anti-clockwise to 'timezone'

Brian

[Mark Fishman]

You're touching on a major peeve of mine, namely the whole Daylight Saving Time thing. As the American Indian chief is reputed to have said, "Only a white man would believe that you can cut a foot off one end of the blanket, sew it on the other end, and you'll have a longer blanket."

I have lots of older equipment that changes its clocks in the wrong week because it hasn't kept up with the legislation that sets when DST starts and ends. Microsoft Outlook changes the times of recurring meetings when the clocks change because it thinks that you're in a different time zone. Microsoft Windows can't agree with any other operating system about how times/dates are stored on FAT32/NTFS/ISO9660 filesystems, and it also changes the reported timestamps when displaying files after a DST change.

If you want to save yourself an ENORMOUS amount of hassle, lie to every computer in your life: set the clocks to GMT, and learn to add or subtract the offset to your local clock time in your head. How hard is it to subtract 5 (or 4, sometimes) anyway? (I'm on the east coast of the USA.) You'll never have to change a digital clock again, and time will go back to advancing monotonically throughout your life, as it is supposed to do. Plus, you can amaze your friends and frighten your enemies with your proficiency at simple arithmetic.

Feh.

[Mike W]

I timed myself changing the clock on the B2 from GMT to BST , 17 seconds and that included getting up from my comfy chair and walking across the room changing via the B2 big rotary button then walking back to said comfy chair.

Anyone complaining that this is a serious problem in their life should really be reconsidering their priorities, I'm sure that it takes longer to write on this forum than it does to change the timezone on the B2.....

Mike