Ianham:
Hi, I’ve just done my first trip over the water. When I got off the ferry I wasn’t sure if I should alter the time on the tacho to local time? My mate said to leave it on uk time, but I didn’t think that was right. Any advice is gratefully awaited. Cheers.
Analogue tachographs ALWAYS stay on home country time. Look in GV262 for official confirmation. Your mate was right.
In winter it should be set to GMT, in summer BST.
Digital tachographs always stay on UTC (which is the same as GMT for ordinary folks like us).
This is the time which will be printed on any printouts and is the internal time of your digi-tacho.
You can alter the displayed time to show BST or ECT if you like. When you do, there is a large black spot next to the time on your tacho display. If it’s set to display GMT there is no black spot.