Baldr Digital Alarm Atomic Clock, 7'' Display with Adjustable Brightness | Large Desk Clock Indoor Temperature, Humidity & Moon Phase for Living Room Bedroom, Adapter Powered, Black

I consider myself technically challenged. Having said that, I had no issues whatsoever with setting up and successfully using the Baldr atomic electric clock. I purchased it because I'm tired of having to change my headboard alarm clock every time the US changes the time in March and November. I particularly like this clock for the following reasons: 1. The ease of dimming it at night; I previously laid a cloth across my old alarm clock to block the light at night; this clock is so easy to just touch the top and it dims once, and then touch again and it dims very dark, almost completely black. There was no discernable shine into the room. When looking directly at the dimmed clock in the dark, I could barely see a faint gray outline of the time. I'm happy with this. 2. The ease of setting up the clock. The instructions were easy to follow; I did do a manual set up the first time to be sure I could, and I intentionally set the time a little off. Once I got the correct time zone assigned, the clock eventually synched up from Colorado to the exact time. It took a few hours before it synched, so a note to be patient if this is your first atomic clock. 3. Super happy with overall display. Love the size of the letters and numbers and can see them from anywhere in the room; I placed this clock on my storage headboard. Love the date display, the day of the week display, the indoor temperature display (which is accurate for my home), the humidity display and the moon phase display. At this point, there is nothing that I don't like. Note: I haven't used the clock alarm; I typically use my phone alarm. So I won't rate the clock alarm for this review. I already use several BALDR indoor/outdoor corded thermometers and have been very happy with them. (They type where you run a thin cord out the window for the outdoor temp.) While researching atomic clocks before purchase, I considered a SHARP comparable atomic clock, but after reading reviews, decided to go with BALDR atomic clock. Since I already had success with BALDR indoor/outdoor thermometers, I felt confident about the atomic clock purchase. This BALDR atomic clock has been a fantastic choice for me. Highly recommend and would purchase again; in fact, I may purchase another for a family member gift.

I bought this because I wanted two things: 1. An atomic clock for my office. I have other clocks, but I want a completely accurate one in easy view. 2. A readout of the current indoor temperature. (I used to always be hot, but now I find myself in my old age being cold rather frequently. I want to know what the real temperature is!) This unit is a very fine way to fill those needs. Its screen is very bright and easily readable. It has three brightness settings, but I only use the brightest one. On the screen, you will find the time in the largest characters. It is labeled am or pm and shows the seconds. It can set to your choice of 12-hour or 24-hour time, and it has several choices of how to handle Daylight Savings Time. Above the seconds display is the phase of the moon. I don't know why that would be useful to me. There is also a small icon that shows up at times to tell you that the unit is trying to connect to the National Bureau of Standards to ge the exact time. My unit, in the middle of an upstairs room about 12 feet from a small window, has a little trouble some days finding the signal, but it connects often enough to match up to my other atomic clocks and watch. The bottom row of figures has the date, day of the week, indoor temperature, and indoor relative humidity along with little arrows to show the trend of the temperature and humidity. (You can figure out the direction time is moving on your own.) The colors--bright white, green, orange, and a mellow blue--are bright and pleasant and provide contrast to help you immediately identify the exact bit of information you are seeking. It has a pull out leg on the back that will allow you to stand the unit on a table or desk. It can also be hung on a wall, but I have not tried that. Power is by AC adapter, which would make hanging in on the wall less desirable. There's a watch-style battery in the unit, which is to retain settings during brief power outages. It has alarm and snooze functions, but I don't use them, so I can't tell you about them. There are a few other features that I don't plan to use, so I can't tell you about them. I've been using the unit for about two weeks. I am very happy with it. It is attractive, accurate, informative, and handy.

This product has a lot of great features. 1) The time shows the seconds (I use this clock in the nursery and the seconds help me time my bottle feedings so I don't feed my baby too fast and she doesn't burp up all her milk 2) Display is easy to read (I can see it across the room without having to press a backlight button, again this is great when giving a baby a bottle because I don't have any free hands) 3) The temperature feature is very accurate and responds to temp changes in the room quickly. It shows temp to the 1/10 of a degree and can be seen from across the room even in the dark. 4) Date and time are accurate 5) The satellite self-setting time feature seems to work well. Cons: Okay, so for what I don't like 1) There are only 3 brightness settings: 100%, 50% and 3%. 50% brightness is still a lot of light and 3% is not visible in most conditions. (This is a huge drawback and in fact, I would buy another one of these clocks for my bedroom right now if it has like a 25% brightness intensity setting. Please, manufacturers, read this post and fix this clock. Everything else is almost perfect) 2) There is a loud beep when you change the brightness setting--loud enough to wake the baby. So even if I want to tone down the brightness when I'm about to get the baby to sleep, I can't. 3) I bought the one with a white frame but it comes with a black power cord, this looks a little tacky when mounted to the wall. The power input has a 4 inch nub coming off the clock so that even if I bought a white cord, you still have the 4 inches of black cord on the wall.

Had I written this review 24 hours ago it would have been less favorable. This is an attractive, color, digital clock with Atomic Time. The readout is large enough to be easily seen and includes the date, day, indoor temperature & humidity, as well as the time. It was the atomic time feature that was my primary reason for selecting this clock. I wanted to save myself some time and energy twice a year when it comes time to adjust for daylight saving time. Right out of the box the atomic time feature didn’t work. The clock just would not find the time signal. I was disappointed. It was easy to set the clock manually, but I wound up setting the clock a few seconds behind the actual time. Close enough! I was going to write a moderately positive review — 3 or 4 stars. Then, a day or two later, I noticed the antenna icon was steadily on — not flashing as it would during a search. When I compared the display time to the time on my iPhone it was accurate, down to the second. I needed to demonstrate some patience in order to learn this clock works!

Where do I start? This clock has a VERY narrow viewing angle. Outside of this viewing angle, you cannot see the information on the screen. When I purchased this clock, I had a specific place in mind where I wanted to hang it, and a spot where I wanted it to be visible from. This clock is essentially invisible with this setup. If you plan on hanging the clock on the wall, it will be lopsided. This is because it only has one nail hole on the back, and the cord hangs off the side. The weight of the cord will cause it to hang crooked on the nail. Newton established this when he published his comprehensive theory on gravity; this is nothing new. To fix this, I had to put a nail in the wall at the bottom of the clock, just below the cord. I will say that the time is spot-on, though. Not that it does me any good, because I have to go up to the clock to be able to read it. When it first set, it was an hour ahead, because apparently, you have to tell it which time zone you’re in. That’s not a big deal, though. Ultimately, this clock is getting returned, because it displays the time just about as well as the empty patch of wall right next to it does. I really wanted to like this clock, because for some reason, all atomic clocks are hideous, and this one is less so than most of the others.

The clock UI and display layout is very good. It has plenty of information like the date, time, and temperature which I actually use a lot. There is one flaw to this clock that pisses me off so much though- it's the brightness, especially when it's at night when when your eyes are sensitive. There are three brightness modes- the first mode has the brightness of Jesus Christ coming out of the screen (way too bright). The second one is still very uncomfortably bright where it will disrupt your sleep if on your night stand, and the third just looks like a black screen with the time being barley visible if you look hard enough. There genuinely is not a comfortable mode to have it set to. Besides that, it's a pretty good clock

Wonderful. Locked onto WWVB (time signal from Bolder Co.) very quickly for accurate time, so I was happy with that. Temp is reading within .1°F with my other digital thermometers in the room. The display brightness comes in three levels: daylight bright (easy to see), sleep bright (dim but again, easy to see), off (well basically off for me because I cannot see the display). Don't know or care about the alarm function, or for that matter, the phases of the mood. The one issue I have and I am still working on it, is how to change the 2032 battery. The instructions say to remove the screw and take the battery holder. However, there is a lip that prevents the battery holder from coming out. Very confusing. Might have to lift the holder a little but there is no way to grab it. Still working on this. Now, the bad. This is not Amazon's fault. I ordered the clock on 6/11 with a promise date of 6/12. It arrived today because the USPS sent the clock to a different city after it arrive in my city. Then it took an additional 3 days to get it back to my city. Again, THIS WAS NOT AMAZON'S FAULT. But I would request that Amazon advise their sellers to use Amazon shipping and not USPS.

I have been looking for a desk top clock (not too space consuming) with seconds (to time my tooth brushing etc) and with AC powered (do not have to deal with batteries) and with LCD back light (easy to read). But it was harder than I thought to find one. Finally I found this one. It is a winner. First I was worry that the color display may be distractive. But it is not at all. It is pretty pleasant. The display quality is very good. easy to set up even you do not read the manual. Control buttons on the side is a good change from standard in the back(easy to see). Replaceable back up battery is included. Just the right size for desk with large time read out. It is the best desk top clock I have. The only thing I wish is to have more choices of brightness levels. Now it is 10% , 100% or off. Maybe add 30% or 50% would be nice. But even at 10%, it is still readable in day time and is perfect for night time. 100% reduces the contrast. Overall it deserves a five star.

Two key reasons for this purchase, the automatic setting of time via atomic clock and a clear view of numbers from my couch. Neither could be accomplished! This despite another such clock (sharp) was on same wall at less than 4 feet from it. As for the display, you MUST be viewing from above the horizontal axis. While seated the screen was very faded and near invisible in a dim room, even though it has a backlight. The display was simply washed out. I returned this clock.

Buen producto, pero hasta ahora aquí en México no he logrado que se sintonice con algún satélite.

アメリカ仕様なので、日本では電波時計として使えません。 日本語の説明書も無く、アメリカのサマータイム設定等、文化の違いでよくわからない言葉の壁もあり、苦労して翻訳しながら初期設定していると、タイムゾーンの設定という項目で、アラスカ・ハワイを含むアメリカの-4～-10の選択肢しか無く、日本の標準時である+9が設定できず、出品者への問い合わせも話が噛み合わないので、電波時計として購入するのは止めたほうがいいです。

It's an OK Clock The screen is difficult to see in bright daylight, The screen is smooth and shiny and refelctions are difficult to avoid. Excellent for a darker room, like a bedroom