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Clocks went back one hour at 2.00am in line with Greenwich Mean Time.

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Octopus totally screwed-up my heating timers last spring, shifting their off-peak electricity supply by TWO hours instead of one!

I'm curious to see what will happen this time?

The power came on at the right time but went off seven minutes early. The water heater didn't know that so continued using electricity at double the normal rate! It's incredibly tedious to reset the timer as well.

My meter changed over as expected. I don't know what time it switched back to normal, but I turn my water heater on manually, and it automatically switches off whenever the meter returns to 'normal'.

It's a drag getting up to catch the last 30 minutes of cheap electricity, but I'm not going to feed the greedy utility companies more than necessary.

The power came on an hour earlier tonight, the same time it did before the clocks were altered last spring!
I have no idea what time it will go off again, am waiting to see what happens?

dutchman wrote:The power came on at the right time but went off seven minutes early. The water heater didn't know that so continued using electricity at double the normal rate! It's incredibly tedious to reset the timer as well.

Ah, so apparently the off-peak timer resumes from where it left off the night before resetting to zero after 420 mins have elapsed thus giving the impression it never reaches the full 420 mins. I've been here three years and never noticed that before.