Clock Craziness

All the messing about with clocks at this time of year can be v. confusing, especially if there are lots of them needing to be put back an hour. I couldn’t work out why one of them in my computer room was showing a time which was completely different from the right time or the right time plus an hour. I was trying to work out why, if it had been right the previous day, that it was showing 34 minutes past the hour instead of 18 when I noticed that the second hand wasn’t moving and the battery had given up the ghost. They say the obvious explanation is usually the best one but it’s not always the one that occurs to you!