I know that some of my puzzles are a little strange – ok, enough laughter all.
Anyway, Jezza’s powercut alarm clock (post 525,106) reminded me of an alarm clock event that occured to me. It was in Sydney in the dead of winter and I was use to getting up in the dark. Well, one day / night / early morning, my alarm went off, it was totally dark and I felt that I had only just gone to sleep. The alarm said 6:00am so I dragged myself out of bed and into the shower. About 30 minutes later (you have to love those long showers) while I was drying myself, I noticed that it was still pitch black 
At that stage, I checked another clock and it said it was 3:30am – yuk! – stupid alarm clock (it said it was 7am – oh sure!) had got me out of bed way too early. With nothing else to do, I went to work (a very early start) but forgot to buy a new alarm clock while I was there. That night, I had to set the broken alarm clock so that it would wake me at 6am (real time!). How did I do it?
