Clock jumped back 10 hours...

[7milesout]

Just yesterday I noticed the clock jumped back approximately 10 hours. For example this morning when I was driving in at approximately 8 am, the clock was say 10:XX pm.

I have not done ANYTHING to the car lately. I have never pulled a terminal off the battery. And it has been running just fine.

Has anyone else had this happen to them?


7milesout

[inuvik]

Just yesterday I noticed the clock jumped back approximately 10 hours. For example this morning when I was driving in at approximately 8 am, the clock was say 10:XX pm.

I have not done ANYTHING to the car lately. I have never pulled a terminal off the battery. And it has been running just fine.

Has anyone else had this happen to them?


7milesout

You didn't accidentally turn on the flux capacitor and hit 88mph?

[Fummins]

Check the yellow fuse holder in the dash fuse box? They cut out the radio and some other things at random. That's all I got other than aliens.
I have an alarm clock that randomly resets itself. It makes guessing the real time fun. Drives the wife nuts!

[Cobrajet]

Sounds like the car lost power for a second...I'd check the battery terminals anyway just in case.

The clocks in these cars are notoriously inaccurate, though.

[skyblue]

As Fummins said, it's probably the yellow fuse container, seems to be loose on a lot of them, it does the radio and the central locking and maybe some other stuff, it get's pulled when the car is being shipped and then pushed when the car is prepped for sale to avoid parasitic draw on the battery, it's on the forum here somewhere.

[Space Wolf]

The clocks in these cars are notoriously inaccurate, though.

Can you say that in general? In my Space Star the clock syncs on the RDS signal of the radio. It has lost it's time a few times (maybe the same problem as the OP's) but after a few minutes it is synced again. And AFAIK apart from complete loss it is never off sync.
Further I read (in this forum?) that some trim has a GPS module for no other reason than syncing the clock. But in your car it has no external sync, I understand?

[Cobrajet]

Can you say that in general? In my Space Star the clock syncs on the RDS signal of the radio. It has lost it's time a few times (maybe the same problem as the OP's) but after a few minutes it is synced again. And AFAIK apart from complete loss it is never off sync.
Further I read (in this forum?) that some trim has a GPS module for no other reason than syncing the clock. But in your car it has no external sync, I understand?

Apparently not. My car's clock is 6-7 minutes fast every time I switch to or from DST.

[klroger]

The clocks in these cars are notoriously inaccurate, though.

The clock in mine is only right for 6 months each year, the other 6 months it's an hour slow... I can't figure it out... HELP...