I think I got a bad one.  This is my third one of these (battery does wear out) and so they are not new to me. This is the first one that required more than just setting the time zone (which I expect to do). It took four tries to get the manual set going (it was off by twenty seconds). Since I live about fifteen miles from Ft. Collins (where the time standard is broadcast from), the time sync. signal is full strength. Still took four tries.

Now that the watch is set and understands where I am, and DST, I expected the auto receive indicator to be displayed. NOT! The instructions (YES, I read those pesky things . . . especially when there are problems) say that it will not be displayed if you have a timer or count-down running. I've gone through that twice and there is NO indicator any of those are running. I'll go look again in an hour or so, just in case.

If I can find what there is that is keeping it from doing what it should, this would be a five star watch. The way it is going now, I'll return it tomorrow.

4/19/18:
Received the replacement (Thank you AMAZON) and it had an even worse update history. The previous one was over a month without an update, this one was about six months. It DID have some weird timer running, so I stopped that, insured the other timers were not running, verified that the auto-update was ON, and no change. OK, tried a manual update (remember I live fifteen miles from the signal source) and got an error. Humm . . . not happy, but I'll recheck the other settings . . . OK, let's try again. BINGO! Things are working.

The base watch is EXCELLENT, if it has not been mis-handled. Both of these appear to have been (no marks or scars, but not set, and this one had timers running for somewhere near six months, from what I can see, WHILE IN THE ORIGINAL PACKAGING! I wonder what that will do to the battery . . . . .