Wednesday, August 17, 2005

The Case of the devious VCR Clock

Had a good day at work today. Very busy but managed to get a lot done. Looking forward to a meeting tomorrow which should help ease my understanding of profile control, but that's a story for tomorrow. I got home and my wife asked me to visit her parents, as they have had a problem with their VCR. Her mum programs it using VideoPlus and numbers from the listing mags.. for some reason she has programmed correctly, but the machine hasn't switched on!!! This happened about 3 months ago, and it turned out that the VCR's clock had an incorrect date...ie yesterday's date..The videoplus sets the timer up perfectly, it's just the vcr is running a day behind. Well sure enough today when I check it shows the date as 16th August 2005, when it is 17th August 2005.
Something is a bit fishy here...I don't think it's misoperation on their part, but I'd like to know why the machine is a day behind....anyway I corrected the date, and the program started recording as per normal...spooky eh!!

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