On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:35:20 -0500, **THE-RFI-EMI-GUY**
wrote:

My elderly neighbor bought a new ATT branded digital machine that had
the time stamp. "great feature", the designers didn't think to put a
back up battery in the device. Whenever the lights blinked (often
happens in Florida) the unit would shut down and do nothing except a
blinky light show until someone reentered all the time settings via the
multifunction button sequence. My neighbor couldn't figure it out and
frankly I thought the device was a PITA and a POS.

I simply ask callers to tell me when they called and why in my outgoing
messages.

Mark Lloyd wrote:

(snip)

One useful feature those old ones lacked was a timestamp. It helps to
know WHEN a message was left.


(snip)

My elderly neighbor bought a new ATT branded digital machine that had
the time stamp. "great feature", the designers didn't think to put a
back up battery in the device. Whenever the lights blinked (often
happens in Florida) the unit would shut down and do nothing except a
blinky light show until someone reentered all the time settings via the
multifunction button sequence. My neighbor couldn't figure it out and
frankly I thought the device was a PITA and a POS.


Now, if you have caller ID it could set the clock from that.

I simply ask callers to tell me when they called and why in my outgoing
messages.
--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"Unlike biological evolution. 'intelligent design' is
not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has
no place in the curriculum of our nation's public
school classes." -- Ted Kennedy