That IS odd. When I power mine off by unplugging the instrument
harness and then power it back on, the clock time appears as a jumbled
and random set of digital squiggles until I push one of the buttons.
I'll have to remember to look next time and see what time first
appears after the button push.

Jeff in Marin

On Oct 30, 2011, at 9:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:32:05 -0700
> From:    Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Totally Trivial Question About The Digital Clock
>
> In the last couple of weeks I've pulled the fuse that feeds all my aux
> stuff.  That includes the digital clock in the dash, it goes out.
> Now the
> curiosity.  When the clock gets power again it starts at 1:25. It's
> done
> this several times now so the 1:25 isn't random.  Every other
> digital clock
> I can remember seeing goes to either 9:99 or 12:00 on power up.  So
> why the
> heck does a Vanagon clock (at least mine) power up with such a
> strange time?
> (Isn't this more fun than a tire or oil or troubleshooting a dead
> battery
> or some such?)