Am I being thick, or is it the case that my L405 Autobiography does not auto adjust for daylight saving time?

Just checked and it's 2016, not 1986

For info,

Auto GMT/BST time adjust:
£100 Tom Tom Yes
£50 Central Heating controller Yes
£6 Clock from Lidl Yes
£93,000 FFRR Nah

My wife's 7 year old Merc does it seamlessly. If it ain't broken, fix it till it is.

My £10 bedside radio can manage this, but none of our cars can! Drives:
2010 FFRR TdV8 Vogue - Stornoway Grey
2010 FFRR TdV8 Vogue SE - Zermatt Silver
1998 BMW E36 M3 GTII

it only takes a few seconds to do it manually...not sure about the L405 but on the L322 you can see the hands move on the clock.. ... - .- -.




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Alas you can't see the hands moving on the 405 .... as there is no clock. Only Range Rovers since 1988

stan wrote:

it only takes a few seconds to do it manually...not sure about the L405 but on the L322 you can see the hands move on the clock..

I know it's dead easy on an L405, just touch the digital time display but I'm just amazed that it doesn't do it automatically, especially when travelling abroad.

Maybe it's a Windows 2.11 system  If it ain't broken, fix it till it is.

For auto-daylight savings time, your car needs to know exactly where it is (not all jurisdictions do DST), and when to do it (not everyone does it at the same time). It's fine on a computer or phone that regularly has an Internet connection, but a bit more problematic on a car. Knowing you have to do it manually is a less serious problem than a car that does it on its own and gets it wrong. Resetting the clock in my old Honda was a huge exercise in frustration. At least in the L322 it's fast, simple and easy. I would hope the new ones aren't any harder.

^ Wot he said
Daylight saving is not as common as you would think and would require the car knowing precisely where it was at all times . 2008 MY Supercharged
Rimini Red / Jet
four zone climate
remote park heater
and no ugly kid windows.
magnus satis quod turpis satis

Why can't the radio data be used? Isn't that how my £10 clock radio does it? Drives:
2010 FFRR TdV8 Vogue - Stornoway Grey
2010 FFRR TdV8 Vogue SE - Zermatt Silver
1998 BMW E36 M3 GTII

axle wrote:

^ Wot he said
Daylight saving is not as common as you would think and would require the car knowing precisely where it was at all times .

Doesn't the satnav know precisely where the car is at all times?
Even the inControl app on my phone knows where my car is  If it ain't broken, fix it till it is.

I always adjust the clock manually, god knows we can do with the bit of exercise  Declan
2003 FFRR Vogue 4.4 V8
97 Defender 90 300 TDi

Last October I set the time using the touch screen. The time stayed fine for a few hours then suddenly went to 12 O'Clock. Stayed like that for a few minutes and then reset itself to the correct (updated) time.

Can only think it was to do with the GPS resetting it.

Will be interested to see what happens tomorrow. John
2008 Stornoway Grey 3.6 Tdv8 Vogue
2005 TD6 Java Black Vogue - Written off!!
GAP iiD BT
2003 Discovery TD5 Auto, Nanocom Evolution - gone to a new home!
MasseyFerguson 152 - No electronics!! - Sold

just leave it as is for 6 months and then it'll correct again... ... - .- -.




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6 months, Stan? Swindon different from UK?  John
2008 Stornoway Grey 3.6 Tdv8 Vogue
2005 TD6 Java Black Vogue - Written off!!
GAP iiD BT
2003 Discovery TD5 Auto, Nanocom Evolution - gone to a new home!
MasseyFerguson 152 - No electronics!! - Sold

I don't think we use RDS data over here. Also, even in the Range Rover and not wilderness roving in the old Disco, I can easily get out of range of all radio and mobile signals. (BC = lots of mountains + few people.) In fact, just got a HAM radio licence for safety when there's no other means of communication.

I just thought some more about this. Actually, GPS + satellite radio (which has data) should be able to sort that out. Generally, satellite radio is continent wide, so that's not a huge number of providers to work with. It does require a subscription, but new car dealers often throw in a year.