Finishing setting the home area | Panasonic DMCFZ18K guide

Advanced (Recording pictures)

Displaying the Time at

the Travel Destination

(World Time)

If you set your home area and the travel destination area when traveling abroad etc., the local time at the travel destination area can be displayed on the screen and recorded on the pictures taken.

•Select [CLOCK SET] to set the current date and time in advance. (P17)

1 Press [MENU/SET] and then press 2.

2 Press 4 to select the [SETUP] menu icon [ ] and then press 1.

3Press 3/4 to select

[WORLD TIME] and then press 1.

•If you are setting the world time for the first time, the message [PLEASE SET THE HOME AREA] appears. If this message appears, press [MENU/SET] and then set home area from the screen shown in step 2 in “Setting the home area [HOME]”.

∫Setting the home area [HOME] (Perform steps 1, 2 and 3.)

1 Press 4 to select [HOME] and then press [MENU/SET] to set.

SET

2Press 2/1 to select your home area and then press [MENU/SET] to set.

SET

•The current time is displayed on the top left of the screen and the time difference from GMT “Greenwich Mean Time” is displayed on the bottom left of the screen.

•If daylight saving time [ ] is used at the home area, press 3. Press 3 again to return to the original time.

•The daylight saving time setting for the home area does not advance the current time. Advance the clock setting by one hour.

∫Finishing setting the home area

•If you are setting the home area for the first time, the screen returns to the screen shown in step 1 of “Setting the home

area [HOME]” after you press [MENU/ SET] to set your home area. Press 2 to return to the screen shown in step 3 and then press [MENU/SET] to close the menu.

•If you are setting the home area for the

second time etc., the screen returns to the screen shown in step 3 after you press [MENU/SET] to set your home area. Press [MENU/SET] again to close the menu.

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DMCFZ18, DMCFZ18K specifications

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Panasonic DMCFZ18K operating instructions Displaying the Time at Travel Destination World Time

Models: DMCFZ18 DMCFZ18K