Daylight Saving Time - Don't be an April Fool

[noah4x4]

Just a reminder to UK peeps that if all your GoTos are 15° out on or after April 1st you have forgotten to change DST in your telescope. Unlike computers, most telescopes don't automatically change this.

Then, on April 6th, some early GPS devices that depend on some calendar formats will run out of dates and may stop working.  Like the Y2K "Millennium Bug" when older computers potentially  ran out of dates, currently nobody knows the extent of the likely problem. So if heading to a remote Dark Sky Site, best take a map, compass and self-winding watch until satisfied your GPS and Sat-nav still works.

 

[Demonperformer]

To err is human, to completely foul things up requires technology!

[reezeh]

1 hour ago, Demonperformer said:

To err is human, to completely foul things up requires technology!

How true, Dp!

[Carbon Brush]

I leave my observatory computer and mount on GMT all year round. It makes things so much easier.

Of course, it doesn't solve the problem of mounts with little handsets that need the time entering every time they are connected.
It would have added very little (<£1) to the manufacture cost to include a real time clock with coin cell backup.
The technology to do this has been readily available for 30 to 40 years so there is no excuse.

But of course a handset with clock would have killed the market for the expensive GPS plug in modules that we are being encouraged to enable accurate time setting.?
You can't fool all of the people all of the time Mr. Meade/Celestron/Skywatcher (select as appropriate).

[Anne S]

Ioptron handsets have a coin battery to keep time. Unfortunately the early instruction manuals didn't tell you about it! They've got gps built in too!