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I know this sounds ridiculous but is there a time difference between Scotland & England? I ask this because I phone a family member at exactly 10pm twice a week.

As soon as my phone hits 10pm, I press call. I get told Im 2 minutes early??
Last night, we both looked at the time on our phone and the PC and we differed by 2 minutes.

I have never changed my phone or PC clock ever.

Has anyone else come across this or is there a valid reason?

Florence in the hebrides :-S

Florence I think the Meridian line may pass one side of some Scottish Isles so that may be the reason for the discrepancy. (I have not checked though so I could be proved wrong.) :-D

I think it might be something to do with how the phone and/or PC take or maintain their 'times' from different sources.

Presumably the phone will be 'checking' the time behind the scenes from a mobile network, the PC might do it differently?

Or does your phone and PC say one time, both her phone and PC say the other time?

My phone and PC are exactly the same. Their phone and PC and strangely their Sky News channel which shows the time are all the same but 2 mins behind me. I'm baffled.
We always had a standing joke about Scotland being a different country so the time is different! But it really is lol

If I remember correctly you are in the Hebrides which is west of Greenwich so if there was a time difference you would be behind the mainland.

So how is it that the news on the radio at 2pm is exactly in sync with me. Radio 2 is broadcast from london?

But Pat, I am ahead of England time according to my family!! :-D :-D

could it be their phone clock needs resetting?

East and west of the meridian will be slightly different time wise. Are you east of it, Florence?

I’m with the ‘where do they get their signal from’ camp. Don’t you remember when FM was always out of sinc with digital?

im in the west of scotland. where is the meridian line?

My husband said try resetting the time on your computer

They are on the south coast of england

All of UK is the same time except Bristol Corn Exchange


https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/corn-exchange-dualtime-clock#:~:text=The%20city%20of%20Bristol%20only,times%20exactly%2010%20minutes%20apart.

ok so on google it says the time in london is 15.29
the same as my phone and PC which means its not me thats wrong but them surely?

think you've cracked it Florence :-D :-D :-D

Yes ty for all your suggestions. When I suggested they may be wrong not me, it didnt go down very well and i was told to sort it out my end!!! Lets just say my phone is only 3 years old and this PC a year. Theirs is not a smartphone and 20 years old and their computer i think is XP!

As for the Sky news, I dont have Sky so cant check that although maybe the news channel has the time, I shall check that out.

Some people dont like to admit when they are in the wrong. Grumpy old man springs to mind lol

Florence in the hebrides

Ah, well my news channel 231 on Freeview is same time as me so there we are..problem solved.

Now to tell them they need to adjust their phone and pc hmmmm

:-D :-D :-D :-D

It may be easier to just call them at 10:02! :-D :-D :-D :-D