Comment by com2kid
14 hours ago
I remember years ago I bought a clock that advertised it set itself using the atomic clock broadcast.
Which it did. The very first time it was plugged in, and then never again after. The clock also kept horrible time, it lost a couple minutes every month. Truly an astonishing piece of wtf engineering.
What's weird is it seems like for a long time now I haven't seen "self setting" clocks on retail shelves in a while at big box stores. Everyone went back to just manual timekeeping and I haven't seen a self-setter in a hot minute.
I recently bought 2 of them.
You have to specifically look for the feature. Most do not have it.