Operation Guide 3311/3356

❚To view the last reception date and time

In the Timekeeping Mode, press the Dbutton.

•This causes the display to start cycling between the date, time, and receive icon screens at two-second intervals.

•To return to the Timekeeping Mode, press the D button again.

•The watch will return to the Timekeeping Mode automatically if you do not perform any operation for about one or two minutes.

Signal Reception Settings

•Home City

Specify the city code of your “Home City”, which is the location where you will normally use the watch.

•Summer Time (Daylight Saving Time)

Use this setting to specify whether summer time (Daylight Saving Time) settings should be made automatically by the watch.

•Auto Receive

This setting is used to select either auto receive or manual receive.

•Transmitter Selection Mode

This setting is used to specify which transmitter’s signal should be used for time calibration in Japan.

❚Selecting Your Home City

Note that time calibration signal reception is performed only when one of the city codes shown below is selected as the Home City.

•Select TYO (Tokyo) as your Home City if you plan to use the watch in Japan.

Home City

Transmitter

 

 

TYO

Either the Mt. Otakadoya signal (40kHz) or the Mt. Hagane signal (60kHz)

 

 

LAX, DEN, CHI, NYC

Fort Collins, Colorado signal

 

 

About two seconds

About two seconds

About two seconds

•Auto receive can be selected only when TYO, LAX, DEN, CHI, or

NYC is currently selected as the Home City.

The initial factory default configuration of signal reception settings are shown below. You do not need to change these settings if you use the watch in Japan.

•Check the signal reception settings whenever you have problems with signal reception or when the time setting produced by signal reception is incorrect.

Home City

TYO Tokyo

 

 

 

Auto switching in accordance with

1.

In the Timekeeping Mode,

Timekeeping Mode

 

hold down the Abutton for about two seconds.

• This will display the transmitter selection mode setting screen and cause the second hand to move to the 12 o’clock position.

2. Press the C button once to select the Home City setting.

•This causes the currently selected city code to flash on the screen.

•Example shows Tokyo city code (TYO).

Summer Time

A

signal data

 

 

Auto Receive

ON On

Transmitter

AT

Auto Japan transmitter select

(40kHz/ 60kHz)

 

 

(Displays/Exits Setting Screen) (Scrolls Back)

(Moves Flashing)

(Scrolls Forward)

(Back)

3. Use the D (+) and B(–) buttons to scroll through the city codes until the one you want to select is displayed.

(Forward)

•Holding down either button scrolls at high speed.

•See the “World Time City Code List” for information about city codes.

4.

When the city code you

(Twice)

 

want is displayed, press the Abutton twice.

• This will exit the setting screen and return to the Timekeeping Mode screen. Also, the second hand will move automatically to the current second, as kept by digital timekeeping.

•The display also will exit the setting screen automatically if you do not perform any operation for about two or three minutes.

❚Configuring Summer Time (Daylight

Saving Time) Settings

•When using this watch in Japan, it is recommended that you use the “A” (Auto) summer time setting.

1.

In the Timekeeping Mode

Timekeeping Mode

 

hold down the A button for about two seconds.

• This will display the transmitter selection mode setting screen and cause the second hand to move to the 12 o’clock position.

(Displays/Exits Setting Screen)

 

(Moves Flashing) (Changes Setting)

2.

DST Indicator

Press the Cbutton twice

 

to select the Summer Time

 

setting.

•

This will cause the current

 

DST setting to flash on the

 

display.

•

The example screen shows (Twice)

 

the auto Asetting.

3.

Press the D button to

 

 

cycle through the summer

 

 

time settings in the

 

 

sequence shown below.

 

•

Turning on summer time (ON)

(Changes Setting)

 

causes the current time

 

 

setting to advance one hour.

 

A OF ON

•A (AUTO)

This setting enables the auto summer time setting, which turns summer time on or off in accordance with the received time calibration signal.

•This setting uses Japan summer time data when TYO is selected as the Home City, and U.S. summer time data when NYC, CHI, DEN, or LAX is selected as the Home City.

•Note that “A” can be selected only when TYO, LAX, DEN, CHI, or NYC is selected as the Home City.

•OF (OFF)

This setting turns off summer time and returns to normal timekeeping.

•ON

This setting turns on summer time and advances the current time by one hour.

•The DST indicator appears on the display while summer time is turned on.

4. When the summer time

(Twice)

setting is the way you

 

want, press the Abutton

 

twice.

 

• This will exit the setting screen and return to the Timekeeping Mode screen. Also, the second hand will move automatically to the current second, as kept by digital timekeeping.

•The display also will exit the setting screen automatically if you do not perform any operation for about two or three minutes.

Summer time, or Daylight Saving Time (DST) as it is known in some countries, calls for setting clocks ahead one hour during the summer season. Note that the use of summer time depends on the country and even the local area.

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