Panasonic recorders lost clock settings

Very curious occurrence last night. Went out for the evening and set mt
Panasonic HD recorder to record Sopranos on E4, and set my Panasonic
SVHS machine to record House on Channel 5, both at 10pm. Got home later,
checked the recordings, neither had recorded. After scratching my head
for a while, realised that BOTH machines' clocks had been disrupted. The
time was right, but the date on both had wound back one day, and both
machines were showing 30th August rather than the correct sate of 31st
August.

How could this have happened, and has it happened to anyone else?

"Mike O'Sullivan" wrote in message
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How could this have happened, and has it happened to anyone else?

Could there have been a problem with the Teletext time - both units
auto-synching with that?

Adrian B

Mike O'Sullivan wrote:
Very curious occurrence last night. Went out for the evening and set
mt Panasonic HD recorder to record Sopranos on E4, and set my
Panasonic SVHS machine to record House on Channel 5, both at 10pm.
Got home later, checked the recordings, neither had recorded. After
scratching my head for a while, realised that BOTH machines' clocks
had been disrupted. The time was right, but the date on both had
wound back one day, and both machines were showing 30th August rather
than the correct sate of 31st August.

How could this have happened, and has it happened to anyone else?

I have had this happen some months ago but do not know why.

Mike O'Sullivan wrote:

Very curious occurrence last night. Went out for the evening and set mt
Panasonic HD recorder to record Sopranos on E4, and set my Panasonic
SVHS machine to record House on Channel 5, both at 10pm. Got home later,
checked the recordings, neither had recorded. After scratching my head
for a while, realised that BOTH machines' clocks had been disrupted. The
time was right, but the date on both had wound back one day, and both
machines were showing 30th August rather than the correct sate of 31st
August.

How could this have happened, and has it happened to anyone else?


Ah, just read your post after I had had posted my message (PVR-9200
recorded dates for Five and Sky 3). I have a Humax 9200T and the date on
programs I have recorded off of Sky 3 and Five (coincidentally House
like you) are out. Could this be related to your problem? I'm wondering
if someone has got the channel time signals wrong (assuming there is
such a thing).

Graham

Graham Moore wrote:
Mike O'Sullivan wrote:

Very curious occurrence last night. Went out for the evening and set
mt Panasonic HD recorder to record Sopranos on E4, and set my
Panasonic SVHS machine to record House on Channel 5, both at 10pm. Got
home later, checked the recordings, neither had recorded. After
scratching my head for a while, realised that BOTH machines' clocks
had been disrupted. The time was right, but the date on both had wound
back one day, and both machines were showing 30th August rather than
the correct sate of 31st August.

How could this have happened, and has it happened to anyone else?


Ah, just read your post after I had had posted my message (PVR-9200
recorded dates for Five and Sky 3). I have a Humax 9200T and the date on
programs I have recorded off of Sky 3 and Five (coincidentally House
like you) are out. Could this be related to your problem? I'm wondering
if someone has got the channel time signals wrong (assuming there is
such a thing).

Graham

"These are deep waters indeed Watson"

Luckily I realized before I went to bed, re-set the calender and
recorded the second showing of Sopranos at 1:40 am. After this happens
you tend not to trust the recorder. I've made a mental note to check the
date on the machine before proceeding with timer settings in future.
Whether I'll remember of course..............

Incidentally, I use two different boxes, a Sagem on the HD recorder and
a Panasonic on the VHS. The only common factor is that both recorders
are Panasonic.

On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:31:46 +0100, Mike O'Sullivan
wrote:

Very curious occurrence last night. Went out for the evening and set mt
Panasonic HD recorder to record Sopranos on E4, and set my Panasonic
SVHS machine to record House on Channel 5, both at 10pm. Got home later,
checked the recordings, neither had recorded. After scratching my head
for a while, realised that BOTH machines' clocks had been disrupted. The
time was right, but the date on both had wound back one day, and both
machines were showing 30th August rather than the correct sate of 31st
August.

How could this have happened, and has it happened to anyone else?

This happened to one of my Panasonic DVD recorders yesterday, but not
the other one.

I think recorders normally check their clocks with one of the Teletext
channels occasionally (maybe once a day). If the Teletext clock
happens to be wrong, or the signal is corrupted at that moment, then
the recorder's clock will be set to the wrong time &/or date. This
quite often happens at the start and finish of Summer Time, when it
can take several hours for the Teletext clock to be set correctly.

HTH
--
Dave
Sheffield, England, UK

http://www.gnudawn.co.uk/