Sony ICF-C275RC Dream Machine Auto Time-Setting FM/AM Clock Radio

• Auto time setting clock
• Appealing new design
• AM - FM digital tuning radio controlled clock radio
• Dual alarm with individual setting -- perfect for working couples
• Melody alarm

I normally am very pleased with sony products, but this one has been very dissappointing. It has (in the middle of the night) re-set itself to the wrong time on numerous occasions. Just this morning I fed the baby at what I thought was 4:30 am. It looked too light outside so I checked another clock and sure enough, it was actually 6:30am. My husband, who normally wakes up at 5:30 am, was late for work this morning. This has happened several times.

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I have the same problem with the clock resetting itself. It made me late for work twice. It's also hard to see the display if you aren't at just the right angle. I love every other feature, and the look of it, but you need your alarm clock to be accurate. I have struggled with it for almost 2 years and I'm giving up now. Sony was no help, they offered a trade in at $40. I love Sony products, so this is a real disappointment.

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Some bad reviews here are dead on. Here's the (big) cons: 1) random/mysterious reset to incorrect time (?) 2) Where's the button to turn the alarm off? (I'm sure it's some very tiny button, I dont want to struggle to look for at 5:00am each morning). 3) Power failure means you must reset your alarms (etc). So dont think being "atomic" will prevent you from doing this. Just passing on some knowledge, to help you decide NOT to buy, as I bought two of these expensive alarm clocks, and totally regret it! So do yourself a favor PASS.

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We bought two of these for the atomic clock feature. This works well, by the product has some very frustrating aspects.

There are three light levels for the digital readout. The brightest two are too bright to sleep by. The dimmest cannot be seen in the daylight at all.

Most frustrating is that there is no battery back up. With any power failure, the time resets with the atomic feature, but the rest must be completely reprogrammed station presets, alams, brightness, etc. Very annoying!

I had been looking for some time for an easy to read at night atomic alarm clock radio for my nightstand. This product looked perfect, but, although it does exactly what it is advertised to do, it is truly disappointing as a practical solution.

A major feature of such a product is that it comes back after power failures. Although this product quickly resyncs to the correct time after power failures, it FORGETS that the alarm was set, so it does not wake you up as expected. This is a fatal flaw.

Incidently, it also forgets everything else about the alarm settings, what station the radio was last tuned to, and the radio presets ... these things just being annoying.

Another problem with the product is the decision to have dark numbers on a lit background. This design choice forces you to turn the brightness down for nighttime use, at the expense of being able to read the clock in the daytime. With lit numbers and a dark background (much more common on clock radios), even at maximum brightness, the amount of light placed in the room at night is generally minimal. Also, as someone who wears glasses, I think it is easier to read lit numbers on a dark background without my glasses at night.

In summary: the unit needs a battery backup to retain the alarm and other settings and should be redesigned to have bright numbers on a dark background.

Also, it seems to me that if you have a clock that is perfectly accurate, it would not be unreasonable to display the seconds, but I could see this as a matter on which people might disagree.