"lsmyer" ) writes:
I can't imagine anyone really needing a continually synchronizing clock. But
need is never a reason not to buy something cool.

When they hit the thirty dollar level here, I was tempted and kept putting it
off. I don't have a need for such "absolute" time. But then when one went
on sale for twenty dollars back in February, I bought one. It is indeed
a neat gadget.

It turns out to be a nice portable clock, at the very least, and as cheap as
many non-"atomic". But I do find it useful to know that this is the time, and
it is still set with the standard. While I still say such clocks have
now become common simply because we have clocks everywhere (compared
to years ago when there were only a couple in a house), none of which get
set to the exact same time and then drift a tad, it is useful to have
a standard so one can set the rest of the clocks.

Michael

I should know... in the past year, I've bought three of those clocks myself.
Why? Why not? It's cool to listen to WWV on one of my radios and watch my
clocks tick exactly in sync with the radio. It's kind of like my clock make
the radio beep.

A true gadget freak can NEVER have enough gadgets.