Worth Data 5000 Date & Time Settings, Date Format, Year Output, Shut Down Time, Date/Time Format

Date & Time Settings

DATE & TIME SETTINGS
TIME ---------------------------	0907	1
DATE --------------------------	122309	2
DATE FORMAT --------	USA/EURO 3
YEAR OUTPUT ---------	2/4 - DIGIT 4
SHUT DOWN TIME -----	05	5
DATE/TIME FORMAT – SHORT		6
DONE/EXIT ----------------------------		0

CHANGE SETTING #: _

Time

Press the #1 key on the TriCoder keypad to change the Time. This will take the cursor to the time setting. You can then enter the time in 4 digits using the keypad. The TriCoder using a 24 Hour clock or military time format. For example, to enter a time of 3:35 p.m., key in 1535 or key in 0907 for 9:07 a.m. Press ENTER to complete the change.

Date

Press the #2 key on the TriCoder keypad to change the Date. This will take the cursor to the date value where you can enter the correct date 6-digit date in the mmddyy format. For example, to set a date of 12/01/2009, you would key 120109. Press ENTER to complete the change. You can always press the STATUS key to view the current date and time in both NON PORTABLE mode and during Data Collection. To set the time in the TriCoder from a host computer, see Hardware Utilities for details.

Date Format

Press the #3 key on the TriCoder keypad to change the Date Format. This can be changed from USA, which is mmddyy and is the default, or can be set to EUROPEAN, which uses the international date format of ddmmyy.

Year Output

Press the #4 key on the TriCoder keypad to change the Year Output. This option allows you to output the date with a 2-Digit year or as a 4-Digit year. The default date format is USA setting would be mmddyy with a 2-Digit year. If you change this setting to 4-Digit then the date output would change to mmddyyyy.

Shut Down Time

Press the #5 key on the TriCoder keypad to change the Shut Down Time. By default this is set to 05 and if the TriCoder is inactive for more than 5 minutes, it will shut itself down in order to conserve batteries. To resume operation, you must turn the TriCoder back on using the ON/OFF key. To change the amount of time the TriCoder waits before shutting down key in 5 from the TriCoder keypad. This will take the cursor to the Shut Down Time setting. Key in two digits - the default is 05 (5 minutes) - to correspond to the length of time in minutes. For example, 01 would be 1 minute. If you want to prevent the TriCoder from shutting off automatically at all, set the Shut Down Time to 00.

Date/Time Format

There are also alternative output options for the date and time on the TriCoder. The default is the SHORT format, which outputs the date and time as mmddyy and hhmm with no spaces between characters. The LONG format uses / separators for the date, and time uses : separator; so the uploaded date when set to LONG for date would be mm/dd/yy and for time hh:mm

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