Bulova Connect "Atomic" WiFi Clock You Can Use Where Radio "Atomic Time" Reception Isn't Available!

If you're familiar with the Casio Wave Ceptor and Multiband 6 watches which I've talked about in many of my other videos, then you understand that consumer-grade Radio Controlled "Atomic" clocks don't work in every part of the world. In fact, there's nowhere in the Southern Hemisphere where such clocks and watches will be able to receive the atomic time broadcasts which are necessary to maintain the best accuracy. Even in places where those long-range radio broadcasts of atomic time data are supposed to work, there may be any number of ways that radio interference can stop a consumer-grade clock from receiving the broadcasts. Well, now there's another way!

The clock in this video connects to a local WiFi network in your house, office, school, church, factory or anywhere that WiFi works. It can determine your location, search for online time servers and then set itself to the correct time, right down to the second. Not only is this generally more reliable than the long-range radio broadcasts but it can also determine the correct time much more quickly. Within five minutes of starting up it should be able to spin the hands around to the correct time and then run normally as a super-accurate quartz clock, day after day (until the batteries run out). Just set this once and then let the clock do its job.

Certainly, there's still a place for WWVB receivers (or clocks which set themselves to atomic time by receiving the broadcast from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST) and those clocks generally cost a bit less than the one in this video. But it's great to know that WWVB isn't the only option to send time data to consumer-grade clocks which set themselves. The clock in this video will also work great in buildings with metal and concrete construction and/or places where machines create radio interference. And, while I haven't been able to test it myself, this clock should work ANYWHERE on Earth. As long and there's a good WiFi connection and the clock can determine the time zone of that WiFi network, it should be ready to roll.