USER’S GUIDE 2568

To set the current time in the World Time Mode

DST indicator

1. In the World Time Mode, use Dto select the city code

whose time you want to set.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. After you select a city code, hold down A until the DST

 

 

 

on/off setting of the World time starts to flash, which

 

 

 

indicates the setting screen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Use Cto move the flashing in the sequence shown

 

 

 

below to select other settings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DST on/off

 

 

Hour

 

 

Minutes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.When the setting you want to change is flashing, use B and Dto change it as described below.

To change this setting

Perform this button operation

 

Press Dto toggle between Daylight Saving Time

 

(ON displayed) and standard time (OF displayed).

DST on/off

• The above operation toggles all World Time city

 

codes between Daylight Saving Time and Standard

 

Time.

Hour, Minutes

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

 

 

•While the settings are flashing on the display, pressing Band D at the same time changes the DST on/off, hour, and minutes settings so they match the Timekeeping Mode time.

•When setting the world time using the 12-hour format, take care to set the time correctly as a.m. (A indicator) or p.m. (P indicator).

5.Press A to exit the setting screen.

• The DST indicator appears on the display to indicate that Daylight Saving Time is

turned on in the World Time Mode.

10.Press Ato store your data and return to the Data Bank record screen (without the cursor).

•When you press A to store data, the name and number you input flash for about one second as Data Bank records are sorted. After the sort operation is complete, the Data Bank record screen appears.

•The name can show only three characters at a time, so longer text scrolls continuously from right to left. The last character is indicated by the symbol after it.

To recall Data Bank records

In the Data Bank Mode, use Dto scroll through Data Bank records on the display.

To edit a Data Bank record

1.In the Data Bank Mode, use Dto scroll through the records and display the one you want to edit.

2.Hold down Auntil the flashing cursor appears on the display.

3.Use Cto move the flashing to the character you want to change.

4.Use D(forward) and B (back) to change the character.

5.After making the changes that you want, press A to store them and return to the Data Bank record screen.

To delete a Data Bank record

1.In the Data Bank Mode, use Dto scroll through the records and display the one you want to delete.

2.Hold down Auntil the flashing cursor appears on the display.

3.Press Band Dat the same time to delete the record.

•The message CLR appears to indicate that the record is being deleted. After the record is deleted, the cursor appears on the display, ready for input.

4.Input data or press Ato return to the Data Bank record screen.

Alarms

• Note that you cannot make settings for individual city codes. Daylight Saving Time

(summer time) advances the time setting by one hour from Standard Time.

Remember that not all countries or even local areas use Daylight Saving Time.

To view the time in another city code

In the World Time Mode, press D to scroll city codes (time zones).

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

Data Bank

Timekeeping

Alarm date

 

Mode time

(month – Day)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alarm number

Alarm time (Hour : Minutes)

You can set up to five independent multi-function alarms with hour, minutes, month, and day. When an alarm is turned on, the alarm tone sounds when the alarm time is reached. One of the alarms can be configured as a snooze alarm or a one-time alarm, while the other four are one-time alarms.

You can also turn on an Hourly Time Signal that causes the watch to beep twice every hour on the hour.

• There are five alarms numbered 1 through 5. You can

configure Alarm 1 as a snooze alarm or a one-time

alarm. Alarms 2 through 5 can be used as one-time

Remaining memory

Name

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The Data Bank Mode lets you store up to 30 records, each containing name and telephone number data. Records are automatically sorted based on the characters of the name. You can recall records by scrolling through them on the display.

•The characters you can input for the name depend on the language you select in the Timekeeping Mode. See “To set the time and date” for more information. Changing the language setting does not affect names that are already stored.

•See “Sort Table” for details on how the watch sorts records.

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

alarms only.

• Alarm settings (and Hourly Time Signal settings) are

available in the Alarm Mode, which you enter by

pressing C.

Alarm Types

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

Telephone number

To create a new Data Bank record

 

1. In the Data Bank Mode, use Dto display the new data

Name area

screen.

 

• To jump directly to the new data screen, press Band

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.

•Monthly alarm

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

 

 

 

Dat the same time.

 

 

 

• If the new data screen does not appear when you

 

 

 

 

 

 

press D, it means that memory is full. To store

 

 

 

another record, you will first have to delete some of

 

 

 

the records stored in memory.

 

Number area

2. Hold down Auntil the flashing cursor (_) appears in

 

New Data Screen

the name area of the display.

 

3. In the name area, use Band D to cycle through

characters at the cursor position. The characters cycle in the sequence shown below.

Press D.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(space)

 

 

A to Z

 

 

@ to -

 

 

0 to 9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(alphabet)

 

 

(symbol)

 

 

(number)

 

Press B.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• The above character sequence is for English input. See “Character List” for the

character sequences of other languages.

4. When the character you want is at the cursor position, press Cto move the cursor

To set an alarm time

Alarm number

1.In the Alarm Mode, use Dto scroll through the alarm screens until the one whose time you want to set is displayed.

Alarm1 Alarm 2 Alarm 3

Hourly Time

 

 

Alarm 5

 

Alarm 4

Signal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

•Each of the five alarm screens has an alarm number. The Hourly Time Signal screen does not have an alarm number.

2.After you select an alarm, hold down A until the hour setting of the alarm time starts to flash, which indicates the setting screen.

•This operation automatically turns on the alarm.

 

to the right.

5.

Repeat steps 3 and 4 until the name is complete.

 

• You can input up to eight characters for the name.

6.

After you input the name, press C as many times as necessary to move the cursor

 

to the number area.

 

• When the cursor is located at the eighth space of the name area, moving the

 

cursor to the right causes it to jump to the first digit of the number. When the

 

cursor is at the 16th digit of the number, moving it to the right (by pressing C)

 

causes it to jump to the first character in the name.

7.

In the number area, use B and Dto cycle through numbers and symbols

 

(hyphen, brackets, space) at the cursor position. The characters cycle in the

 

sequence shown below.

Press D.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Press B.

 

 

 

 

x

 

 

 

0 to 9

 

 

 

[

 

 

 

]

 

 

 

(space)

 

8.When the character you want is at the cursor position, press Cto move the cursor to the right.

9.Repeat steps 7 and 8 until you complete number input.

•You can input up to 16 digits for the number.

•The number initially contains all hyphens. You can leave the hyphens as they are or replace them with numbers or other symbols (brackets, space).

3. Use C to move the flashing in the sequence shown below to select other settings.

 

 

Hour

 

 

Minutes

 

 

Month

 

 

Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.While a setting is flashing, use D (+) and B(–) to change it.

•To set an alarm that does not include a month (Daily alarm, Monthly alarm), set x for the month. Use Dand Buntil the x mark appears (between 12 and 1) while month setting is flashing.

•To set an alarm that does not include a day (Daily alarm, 1-Month alarm), set xx for the day. Use Dand Buntil the xx mark appears (between the end of the month and 1) while the day setting is flashing.

•When setting the alarm time using the 12-hour format, take care to set the time correctly as a.m. (A indicator) or p.m. (P indicator).

5.Press Ato exit the setting screen.

Alarm Operation

The alarm tone sounds at the preset time for 10 seconds, regardless of the mode the watch is in. In the case of the snooze alarm, the alarm operation is performed a total of seven times, every five minutes, until you turn the alarm off or change it to a onetime alarm.

•Pressing any button stops the alarm tone operation.

•Performing any one of the following operations during a 5-minute interval between snooze alarms cancels the current snooze alarm operation.

Displaying the Timekeeping Mode setting screen Displaying the alarm 1 setting screen

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