Operation Guide 5117

World Time

Countdown Timer

City code

Current time in selected city

World Time shows the current time in 48 cities (29 time zones) around the world. A simple operation swaps your Home City with the currently selected World Time city.

The times kept in the World Time Mode are synchronized with the time being kept in the Timekeeping Mode. If you feel that there is an error in any World Time Mode time, check to make sure you have the correct city selected as your Home City. Also check to make sure that the current time as shown in the Timekeeping Mode is correct.

Select a city code in the World Time Mode to display the current time in any particular time zone around the globe. See the “City Code Table” for information about the UTC offset settings that are supported.

Start time (minutes)

Minutes

Seconds

You can set the countdown timer within a range of one minute to 60 minutes. An alarm sounds when the countdown reaches zero.

You also can select auto-repeat, which automatically restarts the countdown from the original value you set whenever zero is reached.

All of the operations in this section are performed in the

Countdown Timer Mode, which you enter by pressing

C.

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

To view the current time in another time zone

In the World Time Mode, use Dto scroll through available city codes (time zone). Holding down the button scrolls at high speed.

When the city code (time zone) you want is selected, you can press Ato display the date. After about one second, the watch will resume regular timekeeping.

 

Press A.

 

 

One second

Hour : Minutes Seconds

Date

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

1.In the World Time Mode, press Dto display the city code (time zone) whose Standard Time/Daylight Saving Time setting you want to change.

2.Hold down Afor about three seconds to toggle between Daylight Saving Time (DST indicator

displayed) and Standard Time (DST indicator not displayed).

The DST indicator is shown on the World Time Mode screen while Daylight Saving Time is turned on.

DST indicator

Swapping your Home City and World Time City

You can use the procedure below to swap your Home City and World Time city. This changes your Home City to your World Time city, and your World Time city to your Home City. This capability can come in handy when you frequently travel between two cities in different time zones.

If your current World Time city supports receipt of a time calibration signal, making it your Home City enables calibration signal reception.

For information about which cities support time calibration signal reception, see “To specify your Home City.

To use the countdown timer

Press Dwhile in the Countdown Timer Mode to start the countdown timer.

When the end of the countdown is reached and auto-repeat is turned off, the alarm sounds for 10 seconds or until you stop it by pressing any button. The countdown time is automatically reset to its starting value after the alarm stops.

When auto-repeat is turned on, the countdown will restart automatically without pausing when it reaches zero. The alarm sounds to signal when the countdown reaches zero. The countdown is repeated up to eight times, and then stop.

The number of the current repeat (1 to 8) is shown in the lower display.

The countdown timer measurement operation continues even if you exit the Countdown Timer Mode.

To stop a countdown timer operation completely, first pause it (by pressing D), and then press A. This returns the countdown time to its starting value.

To configure countdown start time and auto-repeat settings

 

 

 

1. While the countdown start time is on the display in the

 

 

 

Countdown Timer Mode, hold down A for about three

 

 

 

seconds until the minute setting of the countdown start

 

 

 

time starts to flash, which indicates the setting screen.

 

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display it.

 

 

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2. Press Cto move the flashing in the sequence shown

 

 

 

below, and select the setting you want to change.

Start time (minutes)

Start Time

C

Auto-Repeat

 

 

 

(Minutes)

 

On/Off

3.Perform the following operations, depending on which setting is currently selected

on the display.

While the start time setting is flashing, use D(+) and B(–) to change it.

While the auto-repeat on/off setting ( or ) is flashing on the display, press

D to toggle auto-repeat on () and off ().

4. Press Ato exit the setting screen.

The auto-repeat on indicator ( ) is displayed on the Countdown Timer Mode screen while this function is turned on.

Frequent use of auto-repeat and the alarm can run down battery power.

Alarms

To swap your Home City and World Time city

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

2.Hold down Aand Buntil the watch beeps.

This will make the World Time city (which you selected in step 1), your Home City. At the same time, it changes the Home City you had selected prior to step 2 your World Time city.

After swapping the Home City and World Time city, the watch stays in the World Time Mode with the city that was selected as the Home City prior to step 2 now displayed as the World Time city.

Stopwatch

Alarm number

Alarm time (Hour : Minutes)

When an alarm is turned on, the alarm tone sounds when the alarm time is reached. One of the alarms is a snooze alarm, while the other four are daily alarms.

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

There are five alarm screens numbered,, andfor the daily alarm, a snooze alarm

screen indicated by. The Hourly Time Signal

screen is indicated by.

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

Stopwatch hand

Hours

SPL

 

indicator

1/100 second

Minutes

 

Seconds

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

The digital 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 hand will perform one high-speed rotation during the first second of an elapsed time measurement operation. Then it will indicate the seconds during the first minute of the operation. After that, it will indicate minutes. Whenever an elapsed time operation is stopped, the stopwatch hand will move to the current seconds count.

The stopwatch measurement operation continues even if you exit the Stopwatch Mode.

To set an alarm time

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

To set a daily alarm, display an alarm screen ,

, and . To set the snooze alarm,

display the screen.

is the hourly time signal setting.

The snooze alarm repeats every five minutes.

2. After you select an alarm, hold down Afor about three seconds until the hour

setting of the alarm time starts to flash, which indicates the setting screen.

This operation turns on the alarm automatically.

Exiting the Stopwatch Mode while a split time is 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.

To measure times with the stopwatch

 

 

Elapsed Time

 

 

 

 

D

D

D

D

A

Start

Stop

Re-start

Stop

Clear

Split Time

 

 

 

 

D

A

A

D

A

Start

Split

Split release

Stop

Clear

 

(SPL indicator

 

 

 

 

displayed)

 

 

 

Two Finishes

 

 

 

 

D

A

D

A

A

Start

Split

Stop

Split release

Clear

 

First runner

Second runner

Display time of

 

 

finishes.

finishes.

second runner.

 

 

Display time of

 

 

 

 

first runner.

 

 

 

3.

Press Cto move the flashing between the hour and minute settings.

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

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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.

Alarm and Hourly Time Signal operations are performed in accordance with the current time in your Home City, as kept in the Timekeeping Mode.

To stop the alarm tone after it starts to sound, press any button.

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 setting screen

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