I became so frustrated with this up that I ended up not even using it. For some reason that day and the year were not matching up and I couldn't figure out how to get around it. It came with a complex remote control, which was a bad sign because what clock comes with a remote control?? It now sits underneath my bed doing an internal countdown of when someone else finds it and thinks that they can fix it themselves, and then it will be shoved under their bed....