Excalibur electronic GB12-CC manuel dutilisation Understanding, LCD Display

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and 24 hour clock and optional					side of the supporting base near
date displays.					the battery compartment. Press
DOWN CITY/INFO: Press this					the (+) or (-) buttons to adjust
button repeatedly			to	scroll	the brightness of the LCD dis-
through the names of seven					play.
cities that share a time zone. The					Note: The contrast of the LCD
display will continue to show the					is dependent on the strength of
information for		whichever city			the batteries.
you last selected. If you’d like to
show your home location’s time					4. UNDERSTANDING
on the display, but your city’s
name is not among those listed,					THE LCD DISPLAY
turn the globe until your time
zone information appears on the					GMT: In the upper left corner
screen, and press			HOME TIME.		of your display you’ll see GMT,
The LCD will then show				HOME	the abbreviation for	Greenwich
TIME along with your local time,					Mean Time. The time zone for
date and day of the week.					London is set at GMT 0, and all
Hold the ITY button down to					other time zones in the world are
					designated relative to Greenwich
cause the LCD to display infor-					Mean Time. For example, GMT
mation about a selected city,					7, the time zone for Bangkok,
including	the	country		name	shows that the time in Bangkok
(abbreviated as 3 letters), the					is seven hours ahead of London
country and area codes and MMT					time. On the other hand, the time
(Monthly	Mean Temperature				zone for Los Angeles is GMT -8,
abbreviated.)
		this button to			indicating that Los Angeles is
ALARM:	Press				eight hours behind	London’s
enable or disable the alarm func-					GMT 0.
tion. Once you’ve enabled the					You can select either a 12 hour
alarm, a bell appears on the					or 24 hour clock. If you set your
LCD.					clock based on the 12 hour sys-
CONTRAST: The contrast but-					tem, AM or PM will be displayed
tons are located on the bottom					6 below the GMT time zone. If you

Layout of LCD DisplayENGLISH

GMT
ZONE	CITY
TIME
	SECONDS
AM/PM	DATE
DAY

choose the 24 hour system, AM	ITY NAME: At the top of the
and PM are not shown.	LCD display you’ll see a city
ALARM: When the alarm func-	name, which changes as you turn
	the globe. If you stop turning the
tion is enabled, a bell is shown	globe, and instead press the CITY
midway down the display on the	button repeatedly, the names of
left. When the alarm sounds,	seven cities which share the
two bells are shown alternately.	same time zone will appear indi-
(When the alarm sounds, it con-	vidually on the screen. Hold
tinues for a minute before stop-	down the CITY button for more
ping automatically. Or you can	than a second, and you’ll see
press any button to turn off the	that city’s country name, coun-
alarm sound.)	7 try telephone code and area code