Whats the time?
Something weird happened to me today. I arrived to the office thinking it was 10AM and I was late but it turned out it was only 9 and that my phone, watch and car clock all were one hour ahead. It didn’t make any sense, how could three of my watches all be an hour ahead??? This is how it happened:
Phone Clock
I was in Fujaihrah last week and I moved my phone’s clock an hour ahead to match Fujaihrah time. When I got back I forgot to put the clock an hour back.
My Watch
I took off my watch Friday and left it on my dresser. My watch is an automatic meaning it works with hand movement and when you leave it still for 48 hours it stops. The clock must have stopped yesterday at 9PM because today morning when I put my watch on at around 8AM it was an hour ahead.
Car Clock
Yesterday morning I was working on my car stereo and disconnected it resetting the clock. When I plugged it back in at around 11AM the radio clock started at 12:00, an hour ahead.
Thats why my morning today got really confusing. When I thought my watch was wrong, both my car stereo and phone confirmed to me it was right. Everywhere I looked it was an hour ahead. What are the chances of something like this happening!
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26 Comments, add your own...
1. DLC | March 9th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
lol.. the last time that happened to me - I just called the security (24 Hrs) in our office and checked the time with them…
2. ethan | March 9th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
the early bird catches the early worm? =)
3. ahmed | March 9th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
It might be daylight savings time.
4. fkj | March 9th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
what a coincidence, it all happened in the same day of DST..
5. Mark | March 9th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
We don’t have daylight savings time in Kuwait and neither my watch, phone or car radio clock had anything to do with that.
6. zalooom | March 9th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Always call 113
7. shurouq | March 9th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Welcome to the Twilight Zone :)
8. MYK | March 9th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
That’s sooo weird! :)
9. decapitated.jesus | March 9th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
get a life!
10. Dogon | March 9th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Thats what you call Perfect Timing….!
11. FourMe | March 9th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
that’s a freak incident!
12. NAK | March 9th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Hi!!! Since past few days i’ve discovered your blog and since a regular visitor. I understand u use nokia phone and here is a small tip might help u. From the phone settings in “Date & Time” option enable “Network operator time”……..u will be free from this headache forever. Keep amazing me with ur posts….BR….NAK
13. moayad | March 9th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
you must have crossed the gate to the island, who’s you constant?
:p
14. Moey | March 9th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
hahahaha thats creep
15. TripleM | March 9th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
come again…man a story like that could be a movie or use it in Lost…its nice plotted
16. Safi | March 9th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Yes, what a coincidence. I kinda forgot about the Daylight savings time over here. Lost an hour instead of gaining.
17. Lexicon | March 9th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
quite sherlokian on ur part there
18. Amjad | March 9th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
same thing happened with me this morning since we had our time zone changing starting from today.
I wasn’t sure if the time zone was changing starting last night at 12AM or tonight at 12AM. So when I first woke up I expected to have my cellphone and laptop changing the time if the time zone really change, and I noticed no difference between my hand watch, cellphone watch and laptop watch. So I said the time zone is changing tonight, then. But the fact of the matter is that the time already changed but for some reason neither my phone nor laptop automatically changed the time, so now my whole day is messed up… I woke up late, having a short day and would have to sleep earlier tonight. Gotta finish everything on time, though…
19. Movies&Music News Blog | March 10th, 2008 at 2:39 am
that was something lol .
20. Dyxio | March 10th, 2008 at 3:00 am
The problem probably does concern daylight saving time because alot of clocks are programmed to automatically change. My phone and laptop changed automatically.
21. Rayboy | March 10th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Lost : Time Travel :p
22. Jihad | March 10th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Wouldn’t it be great to find out that your times are right and your office is playing a prank on you !!
23. KalasH | March 10th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Yekhreb zou2ak ya Mark . . da7aketni.
Good One : )
24. John | March 10th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
This is the kind of trivial weirdness that blogs were made for!
25. WhoDunnIt | March 10th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Mark… stop clowning around in Narnia and get back in time for dinner.
Rayboy… No spoilers please.. I’ve only gotten till S04E04 ;P
26. Ms.Baker | March 11th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Mark, philosophically, this is what Carl Jung referred to as “synchronicity” : Strange coincidences which seem to happen randomly without any seeming connection -but in fact, may not be.
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