Re: BBC haven't put their clocks back yet!


"Roderick Stewart" <rjfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:VA.00000c6a.01a3216c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article
<4364cb06$0$38643$892e7fe2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> :::Jerry:::: wrote:
> > > What a bloody mess. The fact that it's wrong on the teletext
pages
> > is not
> > > serious, but the fact that everyone's VCR will be wrong and
will
> > record the
> > > wrong programmes *is* serious.
> >
> > Only to an imbecile, or are you saying that people can't *check*
that
> > clocks are showing the correct time anymore, less make the
required
> > mental alterations?!
>
> You don't have to be an imbecile to own a variety of domestic
equipment
> that includes clocks of different types, some of which have to be
set
> manually, some of which update automatically, some of which are
supposed
> to update automatically but don't, and some of which do update
> automatically to the wrong time and cannot be manually corrected.
I'm
> quite capable of getting my head round this lot, but that doesn't
stop
> it being a nuisance.
>

Agreed, so the real villains are not the BBC (or one of it's
'business partners') but the designers / accountants of the said
equipment for not designing their clocks to be manually adjustable,
and when they are adjustable it's not their fault when people are
either incapable or too dammed lazy to check and adjust their own
equipment.


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