GEARONIC TM Wooden Alarm Clock, Modern Triangle Wooden Wood Alarm Digital Desk Clock, Displays Time Date Temperature Calendar, 7 Level Adjustable Brightness LED - Black

I like that it tells the time and temperature, and that the design is clean looking and unique. It drives me crazy that it displays the date and that I can't make it only display the time and temperature. First, once I've seen the date once on any particular day I don't need to see it again, my memory isn't that bad that a minute later I've forgotten the date. Second, it displaying the date screws your perception of time up immensely if you look at the clock at the wrong instant. For example on July tenth it displays 7 10 for the date. Every morning I need to leave for work at 7:25 to arrive on time. If it’s currently 7:24 and I glance at the clock and it happens to be displaying the date 7 10 I end up thinking I’ve still got 15 minutes before I have to leave, not 1 minute. This has made me late for work and other things several times. Now every time I want to look at the clock I am forced to stare at it for a few seconds to verify that it is displaying the time and not the date. It’s a pain! To give this product a 5 star rating I would like three on/off switches on the back of this clock for time, temperature, and date. That way I can turn set it so it only shows the temp, or only the time, or both the temp and time, or only the date, etc. This would make this a much more versatile product and it wouldn’t leave me staring at it wondering if it is showing me the date or time.

Too much effort to set this clock. It has settings for time, day, year, am/pm, dim, 24-hour vs 12 hour and something else. Which may seem nice, until the power goes out for more than 1 second, than you have to read the black-on-black controls to set each of those features. This clock is horribly designed in every way. Probably the worst Amazon purchase I ever made.

Perfect to read from bed without having annoying large bright digits. Just wanted to tell time, not interested in alarm or date function. Tried finding one without alarm to no avail! I found setting time simple.

Product was what I expected it to be when it finally arrived.

We ordered this clock to replace the display on the front of an Xfinity cable box. Now that we've gone Internet-Only, the cable box was returned and no longer provides time-of-day from within the glass-front cabinet below the television. The clock sports approximately the same digit height (only slightly larger) than the former cable box. It appears the clock will fit the bill. We ordered the brown wood-look version of this item.Volumes have already been written about the poor user "manual" or instruction sheet. Suffice it to say, the functionality is there but you may need to experiment a bit--or read the cleaned up version of the manual provided here by another reviewer.Battery: ours arrived with a dead CR2025 backup battery. No surprise there: it was in-circuit and probably had worn out months, if not years since date of manufacture! Why not supply the battery separately? Why not put a slip of plastic for the user to yank out to activate battery backup? We may never know the (lack of) customer-facing engineering that went into this product! That being said, a CR2032 battery I had on hand was pressed into service. The CR3032 is less than a millimeter thicker and the same diameter as a CR3025 used by the product. It fits the battery holder snugly and there's enough clearance the holder can be inserted into the clock: problem solved.