Daylight Savings Time

[Masterlu]

Don’t forget to turn your clocks back one hour tonight.

Extra time to chill listening to some great music!

[cdobson]

Excellent!!

[Audioraven]

Dst should be abolished!!

[prepress]

DST is dead—for four months, anyway.

I am pleased. But I was up over an hour late, so does that negate the benefit? I'll still have to adjust to the schedule change, so maybe not.

[Vintage Pete]

Originally Posted by prepress

DST is dead—for four months, anyway.

I am pleased. But I was up over an hour late, so does that negate the benefit? I'll still have to adjust to the schedule change, so maybe not.

I had some similar thoughts! I'm a clock collector of sorts myself, so changing the clocks is actually a project that takes at least an hour! It takes a bit longer with turning the clocks back, since I'm hesitant to wind some of them backwards (some mechanical and/or chiming clocks. So in some cases, I'll stop the clock, wait an hour, and then restart it.

Nevertheless, I still took Ivan's advise and listened to music for an extra hour, putting me to bed around 1am.

[Masterlu]

Originally Posted by Vintage Pete

I had some similar thoughts! I'm a clock collector of sorts myself, so changing the clocks is actually a project that takes at least an hour! It takes a bit longer with turning the clocks back, since I'm hesitant to wind some of them backwards (some mechanical and/or chiming clocks. So in some cases, I'll stop the clock, wait an hour, and then restart it.

Nevertheless, I still took Ivan's advise and listened to music for an extra hour, putting me to bed around 1am.

Likewise, resetting my entire watch collection is a nuisance.

[Vintage Pete]

Originally Posted by Masterlu

Likewise, resetting my entire watch collection is a nuisance.

Ivan....if you're like me (and I've little doubt you are), you also insist that the second hands are synchronized on all the watches, using a single time reference. Maximum allowable error +/- 5 seconds.

[Cohibaman]

Originally Posted by Masterlu

Likewise, resetting my entire watch collection is a nuisance.

Hahaha. I’ll volunteer just to see your collection.

[cleeds]

Segal's Law: Man with two clocks never knows correct time.

[Puma Cat]

So....here's a funny story about watches.

Just recently, I got a new piece for the collection, the (relatively new) and "hot" Seiko 1965 Prospex Diver, aka the SPB143. This watch has gotten considerable positive press over the last year as one of the nicest mechanical dive watches from Seiko since the legendary "62 MAS" (the SPB143 is also rather affectionately referred to as the "63 MAS" )

Anyhoo...this watch is just flat-out gorgeous with a slim, 40mm case with drilled lugs (yay!) and a beautiful, brushed anthracite gray dial and polished indices. The neutral colorway makes it a strap monster for many different types and colors of straps.

Here's a photo I took of mine last week..


One of the issues, though, with this particular reference is it's accuracy, with many folks complaing of the watch running really fast or, alternatively really slow (e.g. running ± >40 sec/day.). I was having the same issues, so I took it to my local watchmaker to have it regulated. Keeping an eye on it the last couple days, it seemed to be running about -3 sec/day seconds slow. My watchmaker also gave me a tip for my specific watch to take it off at night and place it face down overnight, as in that orientation it runs a few seconds fast, and thus, it would help keep more accurate time through the day.

So, I imagine my surprise today when I came out of the bedroom wearing my automatically-time corrected G-Shock Mudmaster GG-B100-1A (GREAT watch, BTW) on to find out that the SPB was now...1 hour fast! What the hey?

Then, I remembered today was the start of Standard Time (aka "fall back"), and that the Mudmaster had re-set itself, but the SPB had not.

Doh!