battery went flat but cant set time

Updated to 2.08.167 - but still not seeing the "searching for GPS" message

Did you completely flatten the watch?

Because if the watch had the wrong time and rebooted, it'll still keep the wrong time. It has no way to know if the time is right or not. You'll have to manually set it.

However with the most recent update, the watch should hopefully never get to the state where it has the wrong time again.

Would "checking GPS time" be a better message during bootup.

It says Searching for GPS time at the moment. I guess checking GPS time might be marginally better but honestly I don't think it makes a big difference to how users would understand it.

Also I think given the recent update, that message is now extremely unlikely ever to be displayed, so I think it's a non-issue now