Casio 2496 Mail, Stopwatch, Alarms, World Time, Alarm Types, To input mail text, To toggle a city code time between Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time

USER’S GUIDE 2496

Mail

Mail text

Page number

To input mail text

The Mail Mode lets you input up to four mail messages of up to 30 characters each. Input mail text can be sent to and received from another watch by IR.

•Mail messages are identified by page numbers Px1 through Px4.

•Up to six characters of mail text can be displayed at a time, so longer text is displayed by alternating 6-character blocks at regular

intervals. The last character of mail text is indicated by the symbol H after it.

•All of the operations in this section are performed in the Mail Mode, which you enter by pressing C.

•See “Data Communication” for information about exchanging mail messages.

To toggle a city code time between Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time

1. In the World Time Mode, use D and B to display the city code whose Standard Time/ Daylight Saving Time setting you want to change.

2. Hold down A for about two seconds to toggle Daylight Saving Time (DST displayed) and Standard Time (DST not displayed).

•The DST indicator is on the display whenever you display a city code for which Daylight Saving Time is turned on.

•Note that the DST/Standard Time setting affects only the currently displayed city code. Other city codes are not affected.

Stopwatch

1.In the Mail Mode, use D and B to select the mail message page where you want to input text.

•Note that page Px4 is also used to store received mail text. This means that if you receive a mail message while you have text stored on page Px4, the existing text will be overwritten by the newly received message.

Seconds

1/100 second

The stopwatch lets you measure elapsed time, split times, and two finishes.

• The display range of the stopwatch is 23 hours,

59 minutes, 59.99 seconds.

• The stopwatch continues to run, restarting from

zero after it reaches its limit, until you stop it.

• The stopwatch measurement operation

continues even if you exit the Stopwatch Mode.

• Exiting the Stopwatch Mode while a split time is

Press D.
	Px1	Px2		Px3	Px4
Press B.
2. Hold down A until the flashing cursor (			) appears on the display.

Minutes

Hours

frozen on the display clears the split time and

returns to elapsed time measurement.

• All of the operations in this section are

performed in the Stopwatch Mode, which you

enter by pressing C.

3.Input the text you want.

•Use D (+) and B (–) to cycle through characters at the cursor position, and then press C to move the cursor to the right. See “Inputting Text” for more information.

4.After inputting your text, press A to store it.

To edit mail message text

1.In the Mail Mode, use D (+) and B (–) to scroll through the messages and display the one you want to edit.

2.Hold down A until the flashing cursor appears on the display.

3.Use C to move the cursor to the character you want to change.

4.Use D (+) and B (–) to change the character.

5.After making the changes that you want, press A to store them and return to the mail message screen.

To delete a mail message

1.	In the Mail Mode, use D (+) and B (–) to scroll through the messages
	and display the one you want to delete.
2.	Hold down A until the flashing cursor appears on the display.
3.	Press D and B at the same time to delete the message.
	• CLEAR appears to indicate that the message is being deleted. After
	the message is deleted, the cursor appears on the display, ready for

To measure times with the stopwatch

Elapsed Time
D	JD		JD	JD	JB
Start	Stop		Re-start	Stop	Clear
Split Time
D		JB	JB	JD	JB
Start		Split	Split release	Stop	Clear
		(SPL displayed)
Two Finishes
D	JB		JD	JB	JB
Start		Split	Stop	Split release	Clear
		First runner	Second runner	Display time of
		finishes.	finishes.	second runner.
		Display time
		of first runner.

Alarms

input.

4. Input text, or press A to return to the mail message screen.

World Time

Alarm number

Day of week

You can set up to five independent multi-function alarms with hour, minutes, month, day, and day of the week. When an alarm is turned on, the alarm tone sounds when the alarm time is reached. You can also turn on an Hourly Time Signal that causes the watch to beep twice every hour on the

Current time in the zone of the selected city code

Day of week

World Time shows the current time in 40 cities (27 time zones) around the world.

•If the current time shown for a city is wrong, check your Timekeeping Mode time and Home City code settings and make the necessary changes.

•The upper part of the display alternates between the city code and the day of the week.

•All of the operations in this section are performed in the World Time Mode, which you enter by pressing C.

To view the time in another city code

Alarm date (Month – Day)

Alarm time (Hour : Minutes)

Alarm Types

hour.

•There are five alarm screens numbered1 through 5. The hourly time signal screen is indicated by SIG.

•Alarm settings (and Hourly Time Signal settings) are available in the Alarm Mode, which you enter by pressing C.

City code

Timekeeping Mode time (Home time)

In the World Time Mode, press D to scroll through city codes (time zones) to the east or B to scroll to the west.

•For full information about city codes, see the “City Code Table.”

The alarm type is determined by the settings you make, as described below.

•Daily alarm

Set the hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting causes the alarm to sound everyday at the time you set.

•Date alarm

Set the month, day, hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting causes the alarm to sound at the specific time, on the specific date you set.

•1-Month alarm

Set the month, hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting causes the alarm to sound everyday at the time you set, only during the month you set.

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