Figure 3-1Format for Specifying Date and Time

MM DD YY HH M M S S

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You must enter IWO digits for each of these units of time. For example, let’s say that you are reading this in the month of January. Even though it’s the first month of the year, you may not specify the month with a “1”. The HX-20 expects two digits, so you must enter “01” for the month.

The hour (HH) is based on a 24-hour clock. Thus, midnight is 00, noon is 12, and 9 PM is 21.

Let’s say that it is now nine minutes and thirty-five seconds after two o’clock on the afternoon of January third, 1983. What numbers will you enter to specify the date and time?

The date is 1/3/83 = 010383 The time is 2:09:35 PM q 140935 So you should type:

010383140935 and press the m key.

Press H or m at any time before pressing m and you will abort the initialization process.

Note that no spaces, slashes, or colons separate the numbers representing month, day, year, hour, minute, and second. The numbers just run together. So you must be very careful entering them. If you make a mistake entering the date or time, press the IINS-Jkey or m/m . The screen will clear and you may start over.

When you have typed in the date and time and pressed the

mkey, the HX-20 will set its calendar clock appropriately. Then it will clear all programs and data from its memory. When it has done so, it will display the menu again. Now the menu will look like this:

 

CTRL/@Initialize

 

1

MONITOR

 

I 2

BASIC

1

 

 

 

 

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