Hi,

As I can't seem to find anything across the internet about this issue I am having with my TV, I need help from anyone here who might be able to shed some light.

I have a Bush LCD40883F1080P TV, and it's great, but for some reason the time and date don't seem to want to set.

Every time I turn my TV off and put it back on, the time and date is different from how I set it, no matter how many times I correct it. I'm not sure why it's doing it, and there is no 'save' button (as far as I can see) to press in order to keep the time and date the same.

Anyone help?

Thanks.

Ange

By 'switch it off' do you mean into standby or switch off at the mains?

Standby.

I would have thought the TV gets it's time from the broadcast data it's receiving?

I can't think of a single TV I've seen that has it's own clock. Even way back pre-digital I can recall TV's that used the time data embedded in the Teletext stream to produce an on screen clock display.

So how exactly are you setting the time at the moment then? I wonder if the TV is trying to set the clock from analogue Teletext which of course no longer exists? if so then maybe it can be told to use digital broadcasts as the time source.

How is your Freeview reception ? -- are you sure you are tuned to your local correct transmitter ?

Normally as you switch on a TV it will pick-up the program information and time etc ( and ultimately refresh the EPG ) from the incoming signal .

I have seen in the past where if you don't have any reception and rely purely on a cable or sky receiver then the time etc either never gets set or is way out .

It never did. Teletext was always digital. But I know what you mean.

Plenty of TV's had their own, generally the non-text versions of a teletext model had an internal clock (which kept crap time, and had to be manually set).

I doubt anyone ever bothered using them much.

There have also been a fair few models with LED clocks built in the TV - the most famous probably the Hinari Sunrise.

Thanks for all the help you guys.

I have been setting it manually, as the time and date have been way out every time I switch the TV on. So, I need to check my Freeview then, and maybe re-tune? Is this the best course of action?

I never go on freeview because I have Sky and I would only flick over to it if Sky went down due to weather issues.

When I get home from work, I'll have a look at it.

Thanks again.

Ange

Presumably you do have an aerial connected to the TV even if it is only used occasionally? Depending on when you last tuned in Freeview there could easily have been some shuffling of the UHF channels the muxes transmit on so your TV could have "lost" the channels.

Certainly wouldn't do any harm doing a retune. And if it is getting the time from the Freeview signal that may well sort the problem.

Hinari sunrise -- man that's circa 30 years ago LOL , I thought I was the only geek with a long memory on here !

I re-tuned my Freeview and the time adjusted itself and is staying on the correct time and date (so far)

I would never have thought about doing that, and it's been bugging me for days.

Thanks again everyone for the help.