# Will my Honda clock reset itself this August? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 30, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832 "2022-07-30T14:38:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/1 "2022-07-30T14:38:45Z")
Since January, the clock in my CRV keeps starting up showing it’s 2:58, Jan 2. Honda says it should self-correct this August. I’m on tenterhooks. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/2 "2022-07-30T16:24:02Z")
What I [found](https://didhondafixtheclocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Clock-Repair-Procedure-A21120A.pdf) says that the time will correct on August 17, but the date will remain incorrect. BTW, the service bulletin says the clock won’t properly adjust when the time changes for daylight saving time so we’ll have to do that manually. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/3 "2022-07-31T01:42:16Z")
I wouldn’t trust a car where the electrical engineers can’t get a clock to work right. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/4 "2022-08-02T17:40:00Z")
I dunno nuttin’ 'bout Honda clocks. But–if you happened to own a 2003 Hyundai—well…I can’t skip over this wonderful opportunity! Here’s a link to a long thread about a Doper with a sorta similar problem… > [@The most useless accessory in my car is now even more useless](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-useless-accessory-in-my-car-is-now-even-more-useless/614612): > > My car has this date display which I think is the most completely useless accessory possible. It’s not part of the clock - the clock is part of the radio display. This date display is a separate LED display built into the plastic thing on the ceiling that the rear-view mirror hangs down from, which also has the sunroof controls and the compartment for my sunglasses. In fact, if it weren’t for me looking up to get my sunglasses, I’d probably forget the date thing was even there. It doesn’t even … A fun read. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/5 "2022-08-02T17:55:20Z")
I miss my old Santa Fe. By the way, I don’t know if I ever mentioned the fate of that vehicle… I replaced it with a Hyundai Sonata in 2017, so I was letting my stepdaughter drive the Santa Fe. She in turn was letting her boyfriend drive it, even though I repeatedly told her I didn’t want him driving it. He was at a bar drinking and playing pool at 10 in the morning after dropping her off at work, and got in an accident when he left the bar (to go to another bar) and passed out while pulling out of the parking lot. The Santa Fe was totalled. Oh well I got a good 15 years or more out of it. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/6 "2022-08-02T23:46:06Z")
According to my Honda, it is still 2:58 on Jan 1. 😟 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/7 "2022-08-03T00:01:51Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > I wouldn’t trust a car where the electrical engineers can’t get a clock to work right Software engineers. And clocks are ridiculously hard to get right. Just a complete rat’s nest of exceptions and special cases. Ideally, people should be using well-vetted time libraries, but that’s not always possible when you’ve been given a 10-cent microcontroller to work with. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/8 "2022-08-03T00:04:45Z")
Have you considered the possibility that the car is right, and it’s the world that’s wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/9 "2022-08-03T00:06:40Z")
There’s no snow on the ground. That means it must be July or maybe August. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/10 "2022-08-03T01:10:50Z")
Depends on where you live. Our Southern Hemisphere counterparts would be saying “There’s no snow on the ground. That means it must be January or maybe February”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/11 "2022-08-03T01:27:03Z")
@Gorsnak knows where I live. ❄ ❄ ❄ ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/12 "2022-08-03T01:36:33Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > And clocks are ridiculously hard to get right. I was thinking just put a GPS receiver in the car and it should be ridiculously easy. Then I read that the [GPS is the problem](https://didhondafixtheclocks.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/13 "2022-08-03T03:26:07Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > There’s no snow on the ground. That means it must be July or maybe August. Climate change advancing faster than we thought! ---
**Author:** ![Courk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Courk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Courk)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/14 "2022-08-03T04:04:59Z")
OK, so the week counter rolled over after 1024 weeks, and thinks it’s 2002, but why will it fix itself after another 32(ish) weeks? 32 is 100000 in binary, but 1024 is 10000000000, so the number going from 10000000000 (or I guess the string of 1’s that’s a value one less than that) back down to 0 at the initial rollover, then back up to 100000 doesn’t strike me as particularly special? Like why not 1000, or 1000000? ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2022, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/15 "2022-08-04T13:25:06Z")
GPS isn’t the problem. Programmers who didn’t learn a goddamn thing from Y2K are the problem. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/16 "2022-08-04T14:22:24Z")
What’s Y2K, grandpa? 😀 ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2022, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/17 "2022-08-04T15:27:41Z")
The nothingburger before 9/11. Go back to watching TikTok. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/18 "2022-08-17T13:40:43Z")
So the answer to the question in the topic title is yes, sort of. I got in my 2010 Honda Fit this morning and the clock showed the correct time, though not adjusted for Daylight Saving Time. I can live with that and now I can get rid of the cheap clock I stuck to the dashboard as a replacement. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/19 "2022-08-17T14:35:11Z")
Mine too! It was Jan 1, 7:54 when I started the car. Since we don’t do the DST thing, it was the right time. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/20 "2022-08-17T14:37:30Z")
As you note, the clock has the wrong date; it thinks it’s January 1, 2003. I can live with that and not having the time adjust for DST. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832.md?page=2)