OK---I solved the mystery of the magic clock. I had unplugged the
instrument panel for about a half hour. When I plugged it back in it
read something like "18:2&" or something pretty closely resembling a
4 digit clock number (the last digit being broken up) higher than 12.
When I saw that I thought that I had somehow switched the clock to 24
hour mode (wouldn't that be great) I pushed in the hour button and
held it until the clock reset to 12, then 1, then 2 and so on. The
clue should have been the broken last digit, but not knowing that
Vanagons do not have such a clock I assumed it was like a lot of
other digital clocks I reset (like on bike computers) that will flip
over to 24 hour if the prerequisite number of correct buttons are
pushed.

Thanks to Dave for pointing out that Vanagon clocks sometimes have
"other-worldy" readings.

Final thought: As much as I'd like to have a magic clock, I'd rather
have a magic gas gauge. = )

Jeff / 87 Syncro Westy

On Feb 6, 2006, at 8:22 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Mon, 6 Feb 2006 17:03:52 -0800
> From:    Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
> Subject: Re: 24 hr clock
>
> What 'special clock' would that be? I couldn't find any reference to
> anything like that.
> From what he says there I wondered if he didn't just get it back
> into the
> a.m. range, tho you'd think he'd notice what he did twelve hours
> later.
> I was going to set mine to 'military' display, since that's how I
> keep my
> watch, but my wife would've protested and she has enough trouble
> keeping
> track of the time as it is...
>
> Cya,
> Robert
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <JordanVw@AOL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 4:22 PM
> Subject: Re: 24 hr clock
>
>
>> In a message dated 2/6/06 6:17:15 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> jeff@VICKERSDESIGN.COM writes:
>>
>>
>>> Wha? I just reset mine by holding the hour button in for a few
>>> seconds. It went back to 12 hour time.