I went on a trip and could not find my watch before leaving, so I was stuck with either my cell phone or iPod Touch as "pocket watches" during the trip.
The cell phone did NOT update the time automatically where I was, it was an hour off, no way to manually set it.
Ipod, once I FINALLY got to a working Wifi spot, it finally updated. So, I used that at the destination.
But on the way back, stopovers at two airports that were supposed have "Free WiFi", didn't have free WiFi, and it wasn't worth paying for, and without WiFi there was no way to update. So, the iPod had the wrong time until I got back home. Indeed at one point I thought I had one less hour to make a flight than there really was, a local clock said it was about 2 PM when I thought it was 3 PM. I was misled because I THOUGHT my cell phone had updated to the correct local time as it had given me an "update" message recognizing WHERE I had flown into, but not WHEN....... there was no way for me to know that the alleged "update" was not an actual "time update", until I happened to see a local clock.
If I had had MY WATCH, I could have manually updated it. Also, of course, I could have looked at it easily without either getting anything out of my pocket, or asking someone what time it was when my hands were full.
A few months ago, I also got a cheap "Smart Watch", that was.... pretty dumb. So it ended up being a fancier looking version of a typcial watch, since it didn't do anything extra that was worth it to me, with the inconveniences of needing ot charge it every few days, and needing use both hands anytime I wanted to see what time it was (one hand to press the button of the atch on the other arm), so almost like going into my pocket to fid out the time. Also one thing that bugged me was the actual time display when the button was pressed was to show an analog watch dial. Nice BUT, no option to display it as DIGITAL without pressing another button to get into the menu which showed digital time much smaller along side basic menu options (so, again, a dumb "smart watch").
A friend, Jay Marsh, had a "Smart Watch" that is much better (and more $) than mine. It could not be updated AT ALL without interfacing with his cell phone. Which he was unable to get it to do during the trip. So his "Smart Watch" was stuck at the time zone where he lives.
Now if I could afford an Apple watch.....it would have features that would be worth it to me. Probably ACTIVELY reminding me to charge the thing when it got low, as the cheap dumb watch was too stupid to let me know (if it only warned me when I looked at it, and I had gone a couple of days without wearing it, well, I never saw such warnings and it went dead). Even my old ancient "Flip Phone that is just a phone" gives me low battery warning beeps. At least when I bought the dumb "Smart" watch, I knew that at that price not to expect a lot out of it, so I wasn't really surprised, it was a bit of a gamble worth taking a shot at for the price. Although..... now that I think of it, it was "Smart" enough to let me MANUALLY SET THE TIME!
All of this reminds me that I either need to find my good old $15 B/W LCD watch soon, or buy a new one at Walmart.
- George Gassaway