I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated.

I wanted a clock that, annoyingly, didn't seem to exist. Since childhood, my bedside clocks have been a series of red, seven-segment LED clock-radio specials from Walmart or Target.

They are invariably cheap, simple, and long-lived—but they require manual intervention at the start and end of Daylight Saving Time and whenever the power flickers.

After a recent power flicker, as I found myself standing by the sideboard holding down "TIME" and mashing the "HOUR" button, frustration boiled over, and I thought to myself, "We're a quarter of the way through the 21st century.

There has to be a better way!" My perfect clock would be self-setting. It would offer auto-DST adjustment (or not, depending on how this bill fares !).

It would manage drift and always show the exact sub-second time. It would show that time on a red seven-segment display—not blue, not green, not yellow, and absolutely not white.

And I shouldn't have to install any privacy-destroying garbage apps to make it work. Read full article Comments

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  I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated.