Why no automatic switch to winter time? My previous E switched automatically. It is no chance to miss an appointment, but why wait?

 

Well, we're on Fall time in our neck of the woods now .

 

I think that is a Euro only feature, and I'm not sure how the car would deal with the "new" time change dates in the US unless it is very new.

What year/model was your previous E?

 

My Dad's W210 doesn't change automatically. It doesn't know what the Date is. MY '07 w/NAV is really simple to change the clock time manually even though it knows the current Date... but then again the US changed the DST change Dates fairly recently, and then like my PC would have had to get a patch to alter the date/time at which an automatic clock setting would take place.

Its simpler to make the DST switch a manual thing.

 

None of my previous (or current) Benz' changed time automatically. Kinda silly if you think about. If you have satellite radio you could synchronize the clock with one the birds up in the sky. Hopefully this minor thing will be changed in future models.

 

I have W210, it changed time a week ahead, because a day of switching to winter time was changed since time of production the car. I guess that MB didn't want to deal with possible changes of switching day in future, so decided to make it by a driver. However I expect some solution based on automatic software updates. Actually there are many time sources are available as navigation, radio, cell phone.

 

COMAND is a great source of time and is always accurate due to GPS. It only knows UTC time though. The complicated part that the car does not know is the correct offset for UTC. This would constantly change as the current US laws have been deemed temporary so there is a good chance it will return to the old schedule. And it would also depend on what state you are in, etc.