On my 1999 Saab 9-5 I have the following four choices for the display. US - Wombat all the way. am/pm, miles, gallons, Fahrenheit. UK1 - am/pm, miles, Imperial gallons, Fahrenheit. UK2 - am/pm, miles, Imperial gallons, Celsius. Metric - 24-hr, km, liters, Celsius. (Set to this, of course.)
We also bought a clock for the kitchen. It is the 12-hour analog display but it has a receiver and synchronizes to NIST. Early in the afternoon I put the batteries in, and after a short time the hands began moving. The minute hand went around 13 times and stopped a little after 1:00 pm (as it displays). Not once - 13 times. The clock is a 24-hour timepiece behind the scenes. Carleton -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Brian White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ok...so here is my beef. > > On any Volkswagen or Audi, you cannot easily set the clock to 24 hour time. > On my BMW however, it's an easy menu change on the clock display. But I set > EVERYTHING I own to 24 hour time. > > So, back to the Volkswagen and Audi. On my wife's Allroad, I never wanted to > mess with it. But I just bought a Volkswagen Golf R32 and since it's my car, > I'd like to set it to 24 hours like my BMW 540i. > > So I start researching. There is no easy way, but you CAN connect via > computer to the car (It's called a VAG-COM...plugs into the OBD port and you > can set all kinds of things on the car as well as read faults, etc.) > > With this tool you can re-code the instrument cluster to the UK settings. > Great I think! It changes the time to 24 hour time but doesn't change the > miles to kilometers on the digital odometer display. > > HAhaha...think it's that easy? No way. Turns out when you do that, it also > changes the gallon value to imperial from US thus all the trip computer stuff > is incorrect due to that. haha...talk about funny, stupid stuff. > > All that just to change a DIGITAL clock display to 24 hours. Geesh..... >
