Product Reviews Net » time http://www.product-reviews.net Information on the latest gadgets, technology, news and product reviews Sun, 27 May 2012 15:14:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Daylight saving time starts, did your tech change? http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/03/13/daylight-saving-time-starts-did-your-tech-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=daylight-saving-time-starts-did-your-tech-change http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/03/13/daylight-saving-time-starts-did-your-tech-change/#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:03:17 +0000 Daniel Chubb http://www.product-reviews.net/?p=125119 Some people forget about moving their clocks when daylight saving time starts, which being human is easily done although we wouldn’t expect our technology to be so forgetful.

Yesterday we touched on how gadgets can fail during daylight saving time, and the biggest tech problem of late was when the iPhone 4 alarm clock was an hour out of sync. Over 90 of our readers told their story back in November.

Daylight saving time in 2011 seems to have gone more smoothly, although we’ve heard of a few problems in the last few hours, one user said “Great. My iPhone is one hour late!” Have you had any problems with your iPhone or other cell phone clocks?

Sunday’s can be seen as the lazy day of the week, but that’s not the same for everyone and having the wrong time can still cause big problems, even on Sunday’s.

November 6 is when standard time returns. Today your tech should have set the clocks one hour ahead, now that daylight saving time has started, did your tech change?

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]]> http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/03/13/daylight-saving-time-starts-did-your-tech-change/feed/ 13 Daylight savings time 2011, when gadgets fail http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/03/12/daylight-savings-time-2011-when-gadgets-fail/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=daylight-savings-time-2011-when-gadgets-fail http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/03/12/daylight-savings-time-2011-when-gadgets-fail/#comments Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:57:50 +0000 Daniel Chubb http://www.product-reviews.net/?p=125094 You have to wonder why we still carry on with daylight savings time in 2011, there was a great need for it in U.S. and UK history, but today daylight saving doesn’t seem such a good idea in our opinion. Feel free to disagree or agree.

When it comes to your gadgets and home safety there is some good advice you should follow around this time of year, first up its recommended that you replace batteries in your clocks and smoke detectors every so often, and daylight savings is a good time to do that.

Wired gadgets do not have this problem as they change the time themselves, normally via an internal calendar. More advanced gadgets like cell phones keep the process even simpler by keeping the correct time via the phone signal, so as you move between time zones and daylight saving time, the clock changes.

Cell phones have their problems too, you only need to look at the iPhone alarm clock issues from last year, when people were waking up late (In the UK and Australia) after the iPhone alarm went off one hour later after daylight saving. Maybe keeping that old alarm clock is a good idea, just in case.

What gadgets do you rely on for automatic daylight saving, and what do you think of the whole changing time thing? Have you ever been let down by gadgets during the daylight saving time change?

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