My car's clock has the right time again!

ondma

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Do you have navigation? I read that cars with factory navigation units will adjust the time automatically.
My car has a generally easy to use entertainment system, but adjusting the time seems much more complicated than necessary. Have to go to "settings" and then several sub menus.
 

zinfamous

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Jul 12, 2006
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I also love that annual holiday when all my clocks magically reset themselves.
 

Muadib

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Do you have navigation? I read that cars with factory navigation units will adjust the time automatically.
My car has a generally easy to use entertainment system, but adjusting the time seems much more complicated than necessary. Have to go to "settings" and then several sub menus.
That's not true. I just set the time in my Explorer when I went for coffee. My Audi Q7 had to be set too, and unlike the Explorer, was a big pain in the butt to change. Both have nav.
 

IronWing

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And I get to savor 30 seconds of life that would, otherwise, have been spent changing it due to DLS
The compass on my dashboard has been flashing since 2012 when swapped out the car battery. To reset it, one has to push a button and drive in a circle. I can't be assed to do it. The compass still works so I'm not sure why the reset procedure exists. Enough time has passed that resetting the compass will likely result in less accurate readings due to declination drift.
 

Exterous

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Do you have navigation? I read that cars with factory navigation units will adjust the time automatically.
My car has a generally easy to use entertainment system, but adjusting the time seems much more complicated than necessary. Have to go to "settings" and then several sub menus.

I have an older car, in part, due to all the infotainment issues that seemed to be common across brands when I was looking. So no navigation and just bluetooth connections that work really well.
 
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I would go nuts if my car clock was wrong, mostly because plenty of times throughout a year I have to be at a client for meetings by a certain time so I'm constantly gauging it to make sure I arrive ahead of time.
 

nakedfrog

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My car is one of those that has dedicated buttons on the dash for adjusting the time.
 

snoopy7548

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My car won't let me change the time while it is in motion, so I'm just gonna leave it.