My Husband who is blind has had a radio control talking watch and he has had it for over a year but this weekend it never updated the time until this morning. Does anyone know why this maybe.
does the watch have the date on it?? just wondered if its something to do with this year being a leap year?? not of any help to you but just a thought for you to consider!
I've got a couple of radio controlled clocks - they only try to update a couple of times each day and if they happen not to get a clear signal at that moment then it can be 12/24 hours before they try again.
I presume your husband's watch just failed to pick up a signal overnight on saturday/sunday and so was 'wrong' until it got the update overnight sunday/monday.
Hadn't thought about that Mandy, it is a possibility I suppose. I have two other small clocks that changed correctly along with this computer. But you may have something there.
As there is an advertised outage of the MSF radio time signal at the moment (which wasn't on the site two days ago) I'd guess that the transmitter has been having a problem .
I have several radio-controlled watches and they all updated. Some watches need to have their receivers pointing towards the transmitter- that's Cumbria for those using the UK transmitter and middle-Germany for the European transmitter.
Also, if the watch is battery-powered (as opposed to solar-powered) perhaps the battery needs changing, because low battery-level means it won't be able to receive the signal.