Note: Changing the date automati- cally changes the month, the day of the week, and the year. The calen- dar automatically adjusts for a leap year, also.
5. Press MODE to store the setting.
“Resetting Your Local Time Zone” on Page 7.
3.Press UP to select a city (time zone) east of your location. Press DOWN to select a city west of your location.
4.Press MODE to store your selection.
SETTING THE WORLD
TIMES
For the purpose of timekeeping, the globe is divided into 24 time zones. The zone where Greenwich, England is lo- cated is considered the starting zone (represented by 12:00 in the chart on Page 15). The time in every other zone is set based on the time in Greenwich, England; therefore, the times were de- scribed as “Greenwich Mean Time” (GMT).
For clarity, the “GMT” reference was re- cently changed to “UTC,” which stands for Universal Time Coordinate. The ra- dio station WWVB transmits the time based on the starting UTC time zone (12:00). By setting your local city, you program the clock a certain number of hours ahead or behind the UTC starting point. The clock’s initial setting of LAX (for example) is
Follow these steps to set a second (world) time zone.
1.Press MODE six times. The time appears and another city (in a differ- ent time zone) appears.
2.Select a city that is in the desired world time zone from the chart in
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