# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**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, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/21 "2022-08-17T14:39:07Z")
My clock doesn’t have a year. Is that an option that I may have turned off and forgotten about? (When I’m driving, I need the time a lot. I occasionally need the date. I never need the year.) ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/22 "2022-08-17T15:21:26Z")
You may not need it, but if you don’t put in the year, the date will not stay consistent through leap years. ---
**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 18, 2022, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/23 "2022-08-18T00:31:21Z")
The date isn’t consistent anyway. As stated, when I started the car this morning, it was 7:54 pm on January 1. ---
**Author:** ![tomsrunning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@tomsrunning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomsrunning)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/24 "2022-08-18T12:42:07Z")
My Honda (59 plate) had this clock fault – being an hour ahead as of January 2022. But when the clocks went forward an hour in Spring my clock didn’t so it was then at the correct time. And today (August 17) my clock has indeed changed – but not in a good way. It is now over 10 hours out. Is this Honda’s idea of self correcting?! ---
**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 18, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/25 "2022-08-18T18:19:20Z")
Hey, it’s happy hour _somewhere_. ---
**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 18, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/26 "2022-08-18T18:34:40Z")
> [@tomsrunning](#): > > My Honda (59 plate) had this clock fault – being an hour ahead as of January 2022. But when the clocks went forward an hour in Spring my clock didn’t so it was then at the correct time. And today (August 17) my clock has indeed changed – but not in a good way. It is now over 10 hours out. Is this Honda’s idea of self correcting?! Honestly, what you’re describing is different from what I experienced and what I read others experienced. My clock would reset to 1:00 January 1, 2002 when the car was restarted. And since yesterday, it shows the correct time, though it’s an hour behind because it’s not adjusting for DST and the date shows as, I think, January 1, 2003. ---
**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 18, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/27 "2022-08-18T23:51:01Z")
It looks like the calendar isn’t in a perpetual loop. Today, it’s showing January 2. Is there any way I can manually re-set the date? ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/28 "2022-08-19T11:21:07Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > 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. 1. Why 2:58, and can’t you just set the time manually by advancing the hours and minutes? 2. Why August? What’s so special about August? I must know these things. 😳 ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/29 "2022-08-19T11:55:34Z")
I had a BMW 1 Series that I didn’t drive very often. In modern cars even when it is ‘off’ there are still electrical items that are ‘on’ and drawing a bit of power. As the battery drained the computer would start shutting off some systems to make sure there was still enough juice to start the engine. The first thing it would shut off was the clock so I’d have to manually reset it. Neither the 1 Series nor my current i3 would reset the time for BST even though the i3 has a network connection. ---
**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 19, 2022, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/30 "2022-08-19T12:11:46Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > 1. Why 2:58, and can’t you just set the time manually by advancing the hours and minutes? > 2. Why August? What’s so special about August? > > I must know these things. 😳 Apparently Honda has a programming glitch in its clocks. Worked just fine until December 31, 2021. Then, starting January 1, 2022, every time I started the car, the clock / calendar display was Jan 1 2:57. Honda said that he glitch in the clock would fix itself in August. Why August? Dunno. The clock is running correctly now. But not the calendar. Why? Dunno. ---
**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 19, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/31 "2022-08-19T15:12:55Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > It looks like the calendar isn’t in a perpetual loop. Today, it’s showing January 2. > > Is there any way I can manually re-set the date? Good question. I spent a few minutes this morning trying to reset the date but couldn’t find an option for that. As you said, the date appears to be advancing, as today it says January 3. ---
**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 19, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/32 "2022-08-19T16:00:52Z")
Although, now that I’ve had a chance to Google, I found [this Github page](https://github.com/pdaderko/PIC-Projects/tree/main/Navi_Clock_Fix.X) from earlier this year, describing how to hack the navigation system to correct the date and time, though implementing the fix is beyond my abilities. ---
**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 20, 2022, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/33 "2022-08-20T00:03:29Z")
If it’s beyond your abilities, it’s definitely beyond mine. Athough it is January 3 in Piperland as well. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832/34 "2022-08-20T19:41:18Z")
And an unusually balmy Jan 3rd it is. Talk about your global warming. It seems to have arrived in quite a rush this week in Piperland. I’ve heard wackos spouting CT theories about satellites being used to affect the weather, but who knew GPS was quite _that_ powerful??!? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832.md?page=1)