Why are clock radios such a dog?

[Usarka]

No. What do they say ?

Arse biscuits.

[Brian d marge]

does not compute

Huh? the phone has a ringtone >>> Do you fellas have phones over there ??? or do you still count the number of rings before answering the big wooden box on the wall

my phone plays a lovely Harp melody ,,, before switching to national radio ... ( internet ,,, unlimeted and cheap as chips )

you must be a jesting ..cause NZ isnt THAT backward technically ,,, EVEN I KNOW that !!!!!

I hope

Stephen

[Brian d marge]

Get laid, have children.

Mine are 5 and 3 years old and wake up at 5:55am every morning.

I have...I trained mine ,,,they would sleep all day if I let em..

I mean they take turns on the hamster wheel , the electricity is only generated until 10 pm so there should be no reason why they are tired ...

Stephen

[jrandom]

Body clock FTW

[F5 Dave]

ok thought it would be interesting for an update on such an important issue.

ok well I thought it was interesting.

Here's a wee story, one morning we were waking to find that neither of our clock radios were working. Hey it's a bit nippy. Oh power cut. We were out for some 4 hours. Must have Chernobyl'd a substation box or whatever & had to truck in a replacement.

aaaanyway, it appears that the clocks have been dead spot on time for the last month, no coincidence.

So it leaves us with the old clocks that at least don't shine bright lights about the place. . . . Of course this has been replaced by the baby monitor,
- don't start me on that!

[jono035]

Any of the clocks that use the mains 50Hz 'supposedly' shouldn't gain or lose time at all, because mains is deliberately controlled to average out to 50Hz over the course of a day (slower when loaded, faster when unloaded).

My problem with alarms has always been the complete inability to tell them to do anything more complex, like only go off on certain days, or different times each day etc.

Thankfully my phone does this for me now and is the only thing (aside from my watch and computer) that shows a clock on it now.

I used to have a really horrendous one when I was in uni that I would set to the loudest setting with the radio on static and put it at the absolute other end of the room. Only way I could actually get up for lectures after a night out. Hell of a way to start the day...