Hands of time

When the time changed this weekend I did my normal rounds around the house changing the clocks I have that don’t update themselves.  One of these clocks was the one that is above the 73incher in the entertainment nook.  I moved the time back an hour, put it back and moved on.  A little while later I noticed the hands had not moved, weird.

I assumed the battery must also have just died, ok I’ll throw another one in.  I slap in a used AA that was in my battery holder and reset the time once again.  Once again when I looked back in a few minutes I saw the clock was still not advancing.  Well shit, maybe that used battery is bad too?

I crack open my brand new Duracells, throw one in and still the clock is dead. How can changing the time kill a clock? Damn it.  I had ideas of just popping out the generic clock movement assembly but I couldn’t figure out how to separate the hands from the assembly without breaking it.  So I guess it was time for a new clock.

After work I stopped at World Market and found this one.  I liked the old rustic look and the colors compliment the earthy tones that are already in the great room.  I also did a Vine documenting the process, believe it or not.

Sticking with the time keeping theme, I have had my Casio G-Shock MT-G watch for a LOOOONG time, somewhere around 8 or 9 years if I were to guess.  The watch is good looking, solar charged and atomic clock synched, or at least it used to be.

I always used to rely on my watch for providing up to the second accurate times to both myself and anyone that asked.  It is this watch that I use to synchronize all of the timing equipment on race days.  Well a couple months ago I realized that my watch had somehow become very inaccurate, a full three minutes ahead of real time.

When I looked at my last time synch screen it showed the watch had not been able to synch atomically since March!!! This can’t be??!!  My G-Shock has always been rock solid reliable, having the time wrong on it bothered me.  Several times I tried moving my watch to the window overnight when they say the atomic signal is stronger, I still couldn’t get it to lock in a correct time.  This morning as soon as I got up I sat the watch by the window, kicked off a manual synch attempt and was rewarded with success!

For whatever reason, my morning felt a little better with the G-shock synched up with the rest of the world.