Having owned a number of Octy's my current one (which replaced a 15 plate) has been having an issue changing the clock time when going to France.

The previous one had no problem (it also changed the beam pattern automatically - because it had Bi Xenons).

The current car doesnt do either - It has LED headlights, and to my mind even changing the setting has no noticeable effect on beam diffusion.

 

We (until the virus intervened) used to go to France often.

Everytime on arriving in France it would tell me that the speed limits are x,y,z etc. The clock however remained stuck on UK time, despite having the 'Set Clock by GPS' setting enabled.

 

Every time we came back to the UK I would complain, the car would go in, and they would apply 'a fix'.

 

We managed to scoot away at the end of June - problems still there.

In it went again.

 

This time I get a mind boggling reason as to why the clock wont change - and is never likely to, given that we always return to the same place.

According to Skoda Technical (and people at the factory), the setting of the clock is determined by longitude only!!!

If I want the clock to change I have to drive further East, quite how far was never explained.

The area covered by Central European time is vast, I cannot beleive that I have to drive as far as Austria or Poland for it to change.

 

Given that the GPS system is capable of placing the car quite precisely on a road, I find it odd that it cannot derive the local time from those co-ordinates.

Other devices seem to manage, but not, apparently a 2018 plated MkIII Octy...

 

Pffft!!!

Its not the end of the world to change the time manually like the rest of us have been doing since forever.

 

I dont trust the automatic time changes, my Garmin runners watch does it but seemingly only when set to record an activity where the GPS is switched on like running otherwise there would be no battery life.

 

So that was a dissapointment, I thought it would happen automatically but I have to manually force it by switching to run or cycle mode once I have reached the UK or France and that is just the beginning of the problems. It will randomly switch back to the previous CET time zone usually in the middle of the night, I think the GPS must switch on occasionally every few hours to check that you are still in the country and during the night in my bedroom the GPS signal is probably blocked.