Changing the clock on Remstar M-series apap??

My question was OT and buried in another post, so asking here if anyone knows if this is possible, since we just had a time change last night.

No need too, No way to other than to send it to the factory. It's set to Greenwich Mean time. It, like any computer will not keep accurate time, the time in a computer is adjusted by the internet, if it's set to do that. Jim

plr66 wrote:My question was OT and buried in another post, so asking here if anyone knows if this is possible, since we just had a time change last night.

You mean you haven't found that "SUPER SECRET" menu yet???

Yep. What Goofproof said. The Respironics machines are set to GMT when they're built and then through the software and when downloaded into your computer, it's converted into local time by taking the computer's time zone setting. Unfortunately, the clock chips in the Respironics machines LOSE time.....about a minute or so a month. The only way they can be reset is by someone (or the factory) that has the appropriate software and special cable/smartcard connector.

Den

I changed my clock back and I ended up waking an hour earlier than normal

WTF doesn't everyone just leave time alone .... daylight savings just craps everything up and serves no benefit to anyone in our modern world with the capability of business and electricity operating 24/7. The daylight savings concept is just ... well, out dated

Wulfman wrote:The only way they can be reset is by someone (or the factory) that has the appropriate software and special cable/smartcard connector.

Den

SPECIAL CABLE???

GEESH!!! God forbid that any one of us get hold of that little secret jewel!!

OT - I live in Ontario Canada but lived in Saskatchewan Canada for a few years. They always stay on Standard Time in that Province and have done so for many years now. All the rest of Canada does the Daylight Saving time switch --as far as I know.

The people living in that Province agree with you. What is the point now??

I agree with you as well. Why don't we just leave it alone??

First there was standard time

For millennia, people have measured time based on the position of the sun; it was noon when the sun was highest in the sky. Sundials were used well into the Middle Ages, at which time mechanical clocks began to appear. Cities would set their town clock by measuring the position of the sun, but every city would be on a slightly different time.

Kind of like the Clocks in XPAPs

The time indicated by the apparent sun on a sundial is called Apparent Solar Time, or true local time. The time shown by the fictitious sun is called Mean Solar Time, or local mean time when measured in terms of any longitudinal meridian.

Daylight Saving Time has been used in the U.S. and in many European countries since World War I. At that time, in an effort to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power, Germany and Austria took time by the forelock, and began saving daylight at 11:00 p.m. on April 30, 1916, by advancing the hands of the clock one hour until the following October.

I vote with Dreamstalker, do away with changing time. I found out long ago days are mostly 24 hours long, and that's not long enough for me to get done, what I need to do done, so adding a hour on one end doesn't help. Jim

plr66 wrote:

Wulfman wrote:The only way they can be reset is by someone (or the factory) that has the appropriate software and special cable/smartcard connector.

Den

SPECIAL CABLE???

GEESH!!! God forbid that any one of us get hold of that little secret jewel!!

Yep! And I've tried to locate one for about three years and they're just not available. Most DMEs don't/wouldn't have them as it takes a certain amount of "smarts" to use them and the software.....something typically not found in your local brick and mortar shops.

I DO know someone (with "smarts") who has one, though.

Den

Interesting news report around here when the time switch was coming up - In the Spring when we "spring forward", there are 5% more heart attacks than any other time of the year. In the Fall, when we "fall back", there are 5% fewer heart attacks! The news report also said that, for some people driving is affected (for the worst) for 1 to 2 days after both time changes!

Why do we keep doing this????

Well, I'm also one that would just as soon see the clock left alone, but being the contraire that I am, I'd adjust it to DST and leave it there all year around ......I like having the longer light in the afternoon/evening.....Don't care if the sun comes up at 8:00 or 8:30 in the morning......(though I understand the argument that kids shouldn't be standing at the bus stop in the dark -- too many whackos running around these days)....
That said, when I'm in Alaska it's totally a mind blower to have it still light at 11:30pm ......But I kind of like it. Conversely during the winter the sun is only around for about 5 hours a day or so.....

cheers
goose

goose wrote: I understand the argument that kids shouldn't be standing at the bus stop in the dark -- too many whackos running around these days)....

goose

The kids should be walking to school anyway, as we were, uphill both ways, I might add, they need to be fit.. As far as "Whackos", the kids being more fit, could outrun them! Jim

plr66 wrote:

Wulfman wrote:The only way they can be reset is by someone (or the factory) that has the appropriate software and special cable/smartcard connector.

Den

SPECIAL CABLE???

GEESH!!! God forbid that any one of us get hold of that little secret jewel!!

I have been trying to find the set-up for about 6 months. I found a place that listed the cable/card connector for around $190 (not in the USA) but I have not found the program. I asked my DME to get it for me and got a look you would not beleave.

Jerry

6PtStar wrote:I have been trying to find the set-up for about 6 months. I found a place that listed the cable/card connector for around $190 (not in the USA) but I have not found the program. I asked my DME to get it for me and got a look you would not beleave.

Jerry

I'll bet you did! I've occasionally searched on Ebay and the Internet, but to no avail. The software is called "UUT" (Unit Under Test) and does other diagnostics on the machines. I'm not sure what they have to do to get that package......sign their life away?

Den

The cable/card is part no. 1007492, Sleep Link II Interface Card. Now all you have to do is find the "UUT" (Unit Under Test) and the Sleep Link II Interface card. Wats of luck. If you find it let me know.

Jerry

Wulfman wrote: The only way they can be reset is by someone (or the factory) that has the appropriate software and special cable/smartcard connector.

Den

im sure its completely illegal and were all going to jail for even discussing it