Clock with time, day and full date?
I got excited when I saw that you had a clock with time, day month and year, because that's what I want, but pretty much all I can find are clocks with time, day, month and
temperature - no year. It drives me crazy.
But when I followed the link, I thought "but where's the year?" -
I'd love a clock like this wall clock, if only they would ditch the extraneous temperature-and-humidity clutter and give us the
year instead:
- Radio-controlled, so you don't have to adjust it for accuracy or daylight saving.
- Solar powered, so you don't have to replace batteries.
- No buttons to push on the front.
- But NO YEAR, dammit!
Same issue with this solar powered radio controlled alarm clock. At least it lets you have Day/Month rather than Month/Day. On the other hand, the description suggests you get 12-hour time, no 24-hour option - an odd design choice:
caring fromafar and
diablo suggested these ones:
Both radio-controlled, with day and month the right way round, neither with the year. One with three-letter day, the other with two-letter day, plus temperature, plus phase of the moon.
Similar clock, found by
linsue, currently [Dec 2012] only £8.99 from LIDL:
carpe diem found a clear low-price display with just time and 3-letter day:
Time and Day Clock for £10.10p!!
http://forum.alzheimers.org.uk/showthread.php?63634
A nice design from Karlsson: no nonsense, reasonably clear display, but no year. Expensive, too:
This is a nice clear display of all the information, though no particular logic to the layout of the elements. I wondered how loud the flip-over display is -
this poster says it's quiet enough, but found that his father tended to read the big four-digit number at the top as being the time rather than the year; that seems a natural assumption to me. He disabled the year display to fix that problem:
Or if you happen to be going to Australia, there's this:
Discussion at
http://forum.alzheimers.org.uk/showthread.php?9900-where-can-I-buy-a-calendar-clock refers to
http://www.graysonclocks.com which has some nice products, including the identical item with a wooden bezel:
and this radio-controlled digital one:
which looks like a pretty clear design to me (large - the size of an A3 sheet of paper - and expensive).
If you like an analog clock, this desk or wall-mounted clock has a very clear display:
Still, no year, and not radio controlled, so you'll have to adjust it when the clocks change.
Same problem with watches. My mum knows she has trouble keeping track of the date, and she looks carefully at her watch to check - and gets it right.
Try finding a watch with a reasonably uncluttered display and the full date? The watch industry has decided we don't want that.
These aren't
too bad, although - perhaps inevitably - you only find a full date display on a multifunction watch, so one button press and you're off in some other mode like stopwatch or alarm setting or time in some other city, offering maximum opportunity for confusion:
(This one lets also you choose European date format (
DD MM YYYY).)
... but I think it's high time the industry took advantage of the design possibilities with modern displays. Right now, as far as I can see, there's only funny-looking fashion items and this clear but insanely expensive Seiko:
(and
still no year!)
Simple watch with just time and day:
To my mind, this radio has a better clock-calendar display than most clock calendars:
... with an unambiguous display that's as hard to misinterpret as possible, and almost no other visual clutter.
See also this blog:
Review: Day clocks for people living with dementia
http://design4dementia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/review-day-clocks-for-people-living.html