{"id":7367,"date":"2020-06-08T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/?p=7367"},"modified":"2023-07-01T09:54:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T13:54:30","slug":"watch-date-changes-at-noon-12-hours-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/watch-date-changes-at-noon-12-hours-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH DATE CHANGES AT NOON &#8211; 12 HOURS AHEAD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blog-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Watch-Date-Changes-At-Noon-And-Not-Midnight.gif\" alt=\"Watch Date Changes At Noon Instead of Midnight\" title=\"Watch Date Changes At Noon Instead of Midnight\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7368\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This is <strong>a very common problem<\/strong> that people have:<\/p>\n<p><h2>Wrong date change!<\/h2>\n<p>\nTheir watch day (<strong>Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat<\/strong>), and the watch date (<strong>1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31<\/strong>), changes to the <strong>NEXT <\/strong>day and date at 12 <strong>NOON <\/strong>instead of 12 <strong>MIDNIGHT<\/strong>, when it&#8217;s supposed too.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe reason is <strong>quite simple<\/strong>, the watch gears (<strong>dials, cogs<\/strong>) work on a <strong>24 hour cycle<\/strong> (actual hours in a day), versus just 12 hours (1-12).<\/p>\n<p>\nIf you were to open up your watch, and <strong>look at the movement<\/strong> (guts of the watch), you&#8217;d see something showing the days and date, as in the example image below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Watch-Date-Changes-At-Noon-Instead-Of-Midnight.jpg\" alt=\"Watch Date Changes At Noon Versus Midnight\" title=\"Watch Date Changes At Noon Versus Midnight\" width=\"502\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Watch-Date-Changes-At-Noon-Instead-Of-Midnight.jpg 502w, https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Watch-Date-Changes-At-Noon-Instead-Of-Midnight-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nGranted every watch is different, <strong>but you get the meaning<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen your watch switches at noon instead of at Midnight, that means that <strong>your watch cycle is set 12 hours too fast.<\/strong> (or 12 hours too slow, depending on how you look at it).<\/p>\n<p><h2>Fixing this is easy.<\/h2>\n<p>\nAll you have to do is to turn the hour hand of your watch, <strong>12 hours more<\/strong> (which is 12 hours <strong>ahead<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>\nSo if it&#8217;s <strong>2 o&#8217;clock<\/strong> in the afternoon, spin the hour hand ahead 12 more hours until it reads <strong>2 o&#8217;clock again<\/strong>. If it&#8217;s 11:30 in the morning, spin it all the way around again to 11:30 once more.<\/p>\n<p><h2>It&#8217;s that simple.<\/h2>\n<p>\nNow, depending on when you do this (what part of the day or night), you&#8217;ll probably also have to <strong>readjust the day and date again<\/strong>. But don&#8217;t worry, the hour hand is now set properly, so once you reset the correct day and date, <strong>then everything will work perfectly, as it should.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>Spanish anyone?<\/h2>\n<p>\nDo note that if your watch day is showing Spanish days: <strong>DOM &#8211; DOMINGO <\/strong>(Sunday), LUN &#8211; LUNES (Monday), MAR &#8211; MARTES (Tuesday), MER &#8211; MIERCOLES (Wednesday), JUEV &#8211; JUEVES (Thursday), <strong>VER &#8211; VIERNES <\/strong>(Friday), SAB &#8211; SABADO (Saturday), instead of English, <strong>just pull the crown out<\/strong>, and rotate the day ahead once, so that <strong>English word is showing<\/strong>. That way when the day rotates at midnight, <strong>the proper language will still be displayed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>That&#8217;s that!<\/h2>\n<p>\nYou watch is now set right and come <strong>12 midnight<\/strong>, everything will flip over and change according to plan.<\/p>\n<p><h2>It couldn&#8217;t be simpler.<\/h2>\n<p>\n<strong>Don&#8217;t you feel better? ;)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>This is a very common problem that people have: Wrong date change! 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