Comment by kotaKat
12 days ago
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 really wish microwaves and ovens came with radio-controlled clocks.
While the mains frequency is usually a great (long-term) stable frequency source, the bigger problem is that all microwaves I know lack a backup battery and require re-setting after unplugging them.
I recently bought 2 of them.
You have to specifically look for the feature. Most do not have it.
Just to revisit this - I actually bought an "automatic setting" clock now that I saw one at Walmart.
Unfortunately, Sharp is lying. "Accu-Set(tm)" is them factory-programming the clock IC and just shipping a button cell in the box and hoping it holds time. My clock was 5 minutes behind and I have to manually set it. No RDS, no radiotime, nothing.
Oi... guess I have to be even more specific in my product hunt.
thats a new one had not see that before.
One of them I bought the feature is not clear if it is 'on/off'. It is a weird tower icon with another weird icon under it. One of them means turn it on. The other means turn it off but leave it on (why). So to make it work you have to have the little tower but the one under it on too. So two toggles to make it work. The other one I bought the thing was supposed to set itself on first power on. Yet to see that work right. Probably have to bring it outside to make work.