Digital Clock - auto time control.

Infidel

Hi. Not sure whether to most this in House and Home or Tech. Well it's a bit Techhie so here goes.....

Quite simply I'm looking for a clock (bedside or wall) with a large digital display for the time. Also if it had the DAY of the week on it that would be perfect.

The only thing is - I need it to auto-update the time - like for example on October 25th when the clocks go back.

Buying for elderly relatives hat need the display to be readable (i.e. - not tiny) and they would have difficulty be able to change the settings themselves etc.

Fire away. Thanks.

grumbler

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=radio+controlled+digital+clock

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AndyPix

lol at the way some people use this forum to get people to do their googling for them

search term = clock automatically updates displays day

first result = http://www.4alarmclocks.com/auto-set-alarm-clock.html

sheesh

Chino

AndyPix wrote: »

lol at the way some people use this forum to get people to do their googling for them

Yet you searched for them anyway!

AndyPix

Ha I know - Im weak

bsod

maplin sell them, though the day display might be more difficult to find if you want a bright large display style

John lewis have a wide range of plugged in clock radio's for you to have a play with, most sync the time nowadays either from broadcast or time signal.

ariba10

Any radio controlled clock will keep you up to date with time updates.

Aldi and Lidl get radio controlled clocks at least once a year, both Didgital and Analogue.

We have one of each.

Strider590

Aldi do one, about £12-£15, huge digital display, radio controlled time setting, I think it might even be in at the moment.

Problem with all these clocks though, is a poor time signal can cause them to think they're in a different time zone.

Infidel

the digital signal is quite bad around here - had to go back to FM radio because of it.

Was hoping for one with built-in daylight saving time. Kind of like how your laptop does it automatically twice a year without being radio controlled.

Jivesinger

Infidel wrote: »

the digital signal is quite bad around here - had to go back to FM radio because of it.

The radio signal which controls clocks isn't the same as the radio signal for DAB radios (or FM, come to that) - it's a completely different transmitter.

grumbler

Infidel wrote: »

the digital signal is quite bad around here - had to go back to FM radio because of it.

What does a 'radio-controlled' clock have to do with 'digital signal' (DAB?)?
AFAIK, clocks use absolutely independent country-wide special 'MSF' signal from Anthorn (from Rugby before 2007).

That said, in my house in Eeast Midlands I often have to move my desktop clock (from Aldi) to the north facing room to get it updated. However a weather station with radio controlled clock updates without problems with the signal from Germany (a gift from Europe that unfortunately has only the German signal receiver built in).