Why does a radio-controlled clock from Scotland not adjust to our time, but continue to indicate an hour earlier?

Answer

Hi Hedwige,

I suspect this is about an MSF radio controlled clock. This works on the basis of a signal that is sent from England, and therefore works on the basis of English time. By bringing the clock here, the clock continues to be based on English time, because it does not know that it is in Belgium.

Radio clocks that work correctly in Belgium are clocks that are based on the DCF signal, which comes from Germany.

Some radio-based clocks allow you to set a time difference, so that the Belgian time is displayed instead of the English time. Whether this is possible, and how, will be stated somewhere in the manual.

Kind regards,
Luc.