Man, was I sleeping great. And it was still only 7:00 AM! The sheets never felt softer.

Due to various Halloween/NBA activities last night, we are going to the late church service at 11:00. I still had another hour to sleep before even thinking of getting up and making breakfast.

So an hour later, at 8:00 AM, I rolled out of bed and went to the kitchen. Along the way, I passed a clock. It said "8:58 AM". Say what? Hmmmm, we must have had a power surge or something. But the next clock said "8:58". And the next one. And the next one.

I decided to check the one fail-safe time measurement device in the house - of course, I'm talking about cable TV. I turned it on and sure enough, 9:00 AM.

Then it hit me.

My atomic clock had assumed this was "fall-back" day and, all by itself with no warning at all, fell back.

I have already learned that you can't adjust an atomic clock. Either the National Atomic Clock Place runs a tad slow, or every other clock in the world runs fast, because over the last two years, my atomic clock has fallen about three minutes behind every other clock. And even unplugging it hasn't returned it to the right time.

What to do? I could go a week mentally adjusting the time in my mind so as not to be late to every single appointment this week. But that sounds like a lot of work.

So I just moved the clock the Eastern Time, and viola! Problem solved, at least for this week! (Although the clock is still three minutes slow.)

Now, if one of you will please remind me next Saturday to put my Atomic Clock back to Central time, I will be forever in your debt.

RodeoSchro said:

...over the last two years, my atomic clock has fallen about three minutes behind every other clock.

Have you checked the uranium levels?

get rid of it!!!!!

Photowhore your atomic cLock...show us what that bad boy looks like

I have a clock like that in my bedroom. Drives me crazy for a couple weeks in the fall and in the spring. I pretty much just trust my cell phone and cable box clocks.

PANDURITO said:

RodeoSchro said:

...over the last two years, my atomic clock has fallen about three minutes behind every other clock.

Have you checked the uranium levels?

No, no, no. You need to microwave it.

3mins on full power should do it.

RodeoSchro said:

Man, was I sleeping great. And it was still only 7:00 AM! The sheets never felt softer.

Due to various Halloween/NBA activities last night, we are going to the late church service at 11:00. I still had another hour to sleep before even thinking of getting up and making breakfast.

So an hour later, at 8:00 AM, I rolled out of bed and went to the kitchen. Along the way, I passed a clock. It said "8:58 AM". Say what? Hmmmm, we must have had a power surge or something. But the next clock said "8:58". And the next one. And the next one.

I decided to check the one fail-safe time measurement device in the house - of course, I'm talking about cable TV. I turned it on and sure enough, 9:00 AM.

Then it hit me.

My atomic clock had assumed this was "fall-back" day and, all by itself with no warning at all, fell back.

I have already learned that you can't adjust an atomic clock. Either the National Atomic Clock Place runs a tad slow, or every other clock in the world runs fast, because over the last two years, my atomic clock has fallen about three minutes behind every other clock. And even unplugging it hasn't returned it to the right time.

What to do? I could go a week mentally adjusting the time in my mind so as not to be late to every single appointment this week. But that sounds like a lot of work.

So I just moved the clock the Eastern Time, and viola! Problem solved, at least for this week! (Although the clock is still three minutes slow.)

Now, if one of you will please remind me next Saturday to put my Atomic Clock back to Central time, I will be forever in your debt.

get rid of all clocks that way you won't have to worry about this stuff.

Potato clock wins again!!

Mine has changed the time on me on several occassions. Just last week it set itself back an hour on a day that I had to work. Fortunately I still have my old clock set up on my desk next to my bed and I caught it before I was an hour late for work.