So far I’ve been able to “ will myself” to wake up at whatever time I need to wake up, BUT I want a wake-up call as back-up when staying in a hotel and so does my husband.
I don’t think we’ve ever set the alarm on a hotel clock.
At home when we need to be awake at a particularly early time we depend on my “ will to wake” backed up by the alarm on a clock-radio that’s been reliable...to date.
Originally Posted by
davie355
My hotel room clock just went back 1 hour. It is a Sony brand "Dream Machine" with "Auto Time Set"; I have never touched it. I actually had to google the local time to make sure the problem was the clock and not my brain -- it's the middle of the night and I just happened to wake up, somewhat in a daze.
How could this possibly have happened?! Daylight Saving has never been in June.
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Years ago we owned two digital clock- radios that had a a factory set “Smart” feature which would automatically spring forward or fall back on Daylight Saving Time’s start/ end dates.
They were great clocks with nice sized numbers and duel alarms. One clock lived in the master bedroom and the other was in a guestroom.
The clocks worked like champs; automatically adjusting the time in the appropriate direction and on the appropriate Sunday twice a year. Then the US extended DST by several weeks and our two clocks’ “Smart” factory settings weren’t in sync with the new DST dates.
After the DST extension occurred we had to manually adjust the clocks twice a year. OK, no big deal, or so we thought.
The clocks continued to work like champs for a couple more years until they began to reset themselves by one hour backwards... at whim.
This would happen on random days in random months . The two clocks didn’t even consult each other as to when they would reset backwards by an hour...they acted as independent rogues.
Our latest clock-radio doesn’t have a “Smart” DST feature and the old clock-radios have long since gone to where ever it is that rogue clocks go.
