Date/Time Set
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Day Month Year
01
Hour Minute
2009
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JAN
Home
[GMT 00:00] 01/JAN/2009 00:00
London,Lisbon
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INITIAL SETTING: TIME ZONE, DATE AND TIME & OSD LANGUAGE
• To read the menus or messages in your desired language, set the OSD language.
• To store the date and time during recording, set the date/time.
Setting the time zone and date/time for the first time
Set the date and time of your local area when turning on this camcorder for the first time.
If you do not set date and time (time zone), the date and time (time zone) screen appears every time you turn on your
HD camcorder.
1. Open the LCD screen and then the HD camcorder is powered on automatically.
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• When you turn on your HD camcorder for the first time, the time zone screen
appears based on London, Lisbon (Greenwich Mean Time).
• You can also set the “Time Zone: Home” from the Settings ( ) menu. page 83
2. Touch the left ( )/right ( ) tab to set your local time zone.
• Refer to the world time difference on page 83.
• Touch the OK ( ) tab when the time zone setting is finished.
3. Touch the up ( )/down ( ) tab to set current day, then touch the month field.
4. Set values for month, year, hour, and minute as in setting the day.
5. Set the daylight saving time ( ) by touching the daylight saving time ( ) tab and
the up ( )/down ( ) tab.
• Selecting the ( ) forwards the time by 1 hour.
6. Touch the OK () tab when the date and time setting is completed.
• The message “Date/Time Set” appears, and the set date/time is applied.
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