MA0905-EA

Operation Guide 3178

About This Manual

•Depending on the model of your watch, display text appears either as dark figures on a light background or

light figures on a dark background. All sample displays in this manual are shown using dark figures on a light background.

• Button operations are indicated using the letters shown in the illustration.

•Each section of this manual provides you with the

information you need to perform operations in each mode. Further details and technical information can be found in the “Reference” section.

General Guide

•Press Cto change from mode to mode.

•In any mode (except when a setting screen is on the display), press B to illuminate the display.

Timekeeping Mode

Stopwatch Mode (ST1) Stopwatch Mode (ST2)

Countdown Timer Mode

Alarm Mode

World Time Mode

Press .

Timekeeping

Day of week

Use the Timekeeping Mode to set and view the current

time and date.

Month – Day

Read This Before You Set the Time and Date !

 

 

The times displayed in the Timekeeping Mode and World

 

Time Mode are linked. Because of this, make sure you

 

select a Home Time zone before you set the time and

 

date.

Seconds

Hour : Minutes

PM indicator

To toggle between 12-hour and 24-hour timekeeping

In the Timekeeping Mode, press Dto toggle between 12-hour timekeeping and 24- hour timekeeping.

•With the 12-hour format, the P (PM) indicator appears to the left of the hour digits for times in the range of noon to 11:59 p.m. and no indicator appears to the left of the hour digits for times in the range of midnight to 11:59 a.m.

•With the 24-hour format, times are displayed in the range of 0:00 to 23:59, without any indicator.

•The 12-hour/24-hour timekeeping format you select in the Timekeeping Mode is applied in all other modes.

•The P indicator is not displayed when the current time is displayed in other modes.

Stopwatches

To set the time and date

1. In the Timekeeping Mode, hold down A until the seconds start to flash, which indicates the setting screen.

2. Press Cto move the flashing in the sequence shown below to select other settings.

Home time zone

 

 

 

Seconds

DST

Home Time Zone

Hour

Day Month Year Minutes

Timekeeping Mode time

*During stopwatch elapsed time measurement, shows the number of hours elapsed.

Minutes

Seconds

1/100 second

Your watch has two stopwatch modes:Stopwatch Mode (ST1) and Stopwatch Mode (ST2). Both stopwatch modes let you measure elapsed time, split times, and two finishes. The Stopwatch Mode (ST1) includes Auto-Start.

•A display range of the stopwatch is 999 hours, 59 minutes, 59.99 seconds.

•A stopwatch continues to run, restarting from zero after it reaches its limit, until you stop it.

•A stopwatch measurement operation continues even if you exit a Stopwatch Mode.

•Exiting a 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 (ST1) or Stopwatch Mode (ST2), which you enter by pressing C.

3.When the setting you want to change is flashing, use Dand Bto change it as described below.

To measure times with the stopwatch

(Stopwatch Mode (ST1) and Stopwatch Mode (ST2))

Screen

To do this:

Do this:

 

Reset the seconds to 00

Press D.

 

 

 

 

Toggle between Daylight Saving

Press D.

 

Time (ON) and Standard Time (OFF)

 

 

Specify the UTC offset

Use D(+) and B(–).

 

 

 

 

Change the hour or minutes

Use D(+) and B(–).

Change the year

Change the month or day

• See “Daylight Saving Time (DST)” for details about DST setting.

• The UTC offset setting range is –12.0 to +14.0, in 0.5-hour units.

• When DST is turned on, the UTC offset setting range is –11.0 to +15.0, in

0.5-hour units.

4. Press A to exit the setting screen.

Elapsed Time

Start

Split Time

Start

Two Finishes

Start

Stop

 

 

Re-start

Stop

Clear

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Split

 

 

Split release

Stop

Clear

(

 

displayed)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Split

 

 

Stop

Split release

Clear

First runner finishes.

Second runner

Display time of

 

Display time of first

finishes.

second runner.

 

runner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

•The day of the week is displayed automatically in accordance with the date (year, month, and day) settings.

Daylight Saving Time (DST)

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 toggle the Timekeeping Mode time between DST and Standard Time

DST indicator

1. In the Timekeeping Mode, hold down Auntil the

seconds start to flash, which indicates the setting

 

 

 

 

 

 

screen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Press Cto display the DST setting screen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Press Dto toggle between Daylight Saving Time

 

 

 

 

 

 

(ON displayed) and Standard Time (OFF displayed).

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Press Ato exit the setting screen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

• The DST indicator appears on the display to indicate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

that Daylight Saving Time is turned on.

About Auto-Start (Stopwatch Mode (ST1))

With Auto-Start, the watch performs a 5-second countdown, and stopwatch operation starts automatically when the countdown reaches zero.

During the final three seconds of the countdown, a beeper sounds with each second.

To use Auto-Start (ST1)

1. While the stopwatch screen is showing all zeros in the Stopwatch Mode, press A.

• This displays a 5-second countdown screen.

• To return to the all zeros screen, press A again.

2. Press D to start the countdown.

• When the countdown reaches zero, a tone sounds and a stopwatch timing operation starts automatically.

•Pressing Dwhile the Auto-Start countdown is in progress starts the stopwatch immediately.

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