> I’m not particularly patriotic, but this kind of thing feels particularly American. ??? America has no doubt done some very remarkable things (the moon landing, the first backward compatible color TV standard), but I don't think this is a notable example of that. I think everyone in Europe was familiar with even wristwatches getting the time from "airwaves". At least in Germany, watches were a very common thing sin…
> I think everyone in Europe was familiar with even wristwatches getting the time from "airwaves". At least in Germany, watches were a very common thing since the 80s Not the 80s. The first radio controlled wristwatch came out in 1990 (Junghans Mega 1).
Sorry, I mistranslated “clock” (hence why I differentiated “wristwatch” in the sentence before). We owned a Funkuhr-Wecker in the 80s, so, an alarm clock synchronizing to DCF77, in the 80s. The wristwatches came a bit later, yeah (not that I’d have known without looking it up whether that was earlier or later than 1990).