They’re called atomic watches, but really, these watches truly are synchronizing themselves with the atomic clock in Colorado. So that’s the “atomic” part of the name, but really, they are radio-controlled watches. With all the to-do about the earlier DST change, I naturally assumed that the Casio Waveceptor watch I’ve been using, which has made it through a few DST changes successfully, would adjust itself again.
Nope.
Woke up and it was an hour off. Nowadays it’s not easy to figure out how to operate these things, what with only 2 buttons and so many settings. But I did remember what to push in order to force a manual synch. But it was still off.
OK, so where’s that manual. Bah, can’t find it.
So, I went to Google, typed in Waveceptor manual, and found a page on the Casio website that listed a bunch of manuals I could download. “Check the back of your watch to see what MODULE you have”. 4303. Bah again, it’s not on the list!
I tried the next closest module (4316) but that wasn’t even close. A little more Googling and I was still stuck.
So, I went to www.casio.com, clicked through to support, watches, manuals, searched for 4303, and FINALLY found a manual. A little reading, and I found out how to see how strong the signal I was receiving was. Pretty weak, so I gave up and manually changed the time. Which I needed the manual for (and that’s the main reason I downloaded it) because it’s not obvious.
So, an easy-to-use, self-setting radio-controlled watch took me about an hour to reset to DST … a process that with one of those old, wind-up analog watches would have taken say a minute? Oh, the wonders of modern technology.
