Landracing Forum
Misc Forums => Do before leaving for a race => Topic started by: edinlr on April 11, 2014, 12:40:20 PM
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I have used my I phone for years as a wake up call. Never had a problem, it seems much easier than trying to learn a clock in a strange hotel room and easier than messing with the front desk too. Last year I was in impound and had to be out early to be out of impound by 7:00. Set my alarm for 5:00am and was fine. Got up the next morning, took a shower and glanced at the clock in the room and it said 6:20! Holy crap, got dressed and flew out the door towards the track. Got the bike loaded and headed to the gate at 7:05. They said no and someone else in the class set the record 5 mph faster than I could ever run again.
The lesson was that the I phone is pretty smart and even though all of Wendover uses Mountain time, Apple in its wisdom went back and forth from Mountain to Pacific time and woke me at 5 Pacific time instead of 5 Mountain time. Lesson learned. Hopefully this year I will have more horsepower AND a reliable clock!
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It is also dependent on your cellular provider - That anomaly was noted when my wife and I realized her cell phone had changed time, and mine hadn't.
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While you and I and most everyone knows that both Wendovers use Mountain time -- the phone doesn't, so when you cross the stateline you and the phone go into the Pacific zone. You know better -- the phone doesn't.
That's one reason we carry a small battery-operated clock with alarm in the suitcase when we go to Bville. Another is that some motels don't have in-room clocks. Oh, yes -- speaking of those in the room clock radios -- always check to make sure that it is not set to "wake up" - - - before you go to bed. Otherwise you'll get that surprise when the radio comes on really LOUD at 0 dark thirty -- a legacy of the people that used that room before you did. It's happened to us a couple of times. :roll:
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No issues at the bend. :-D
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No issues at the bend. :-D
No sleep, either. :-D