Casio 2496 Watch User Manual


 
USERS GUIDE 2496
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Mail
The Mail Mode lets you input up to four mail
messages of up to 30 characters each. Input mail
text can be sent to and received from another
watch by IR.
Mail messages are identified by page numbers
Px1 through Px4.
Up to six characters of mail text can be
displayed at a time, so longer text is displayed
by alternating 6-character blocks at regular
intervals. The last character of mail text is
indicated by the symbol H after it.
All of the operations in this section are
performed in the Mail Mode, which you enter
by pressing C.
See Data Communication for information
about exchanging mail messages.
Mail text
Page number
To input mail text
1. In the Mail Mode, use D and B to select the
mail message page where you want to input
text.
Note that page Px4 is also used to store
received mail text. This means that if you
receive a mail message while you have text
stored on page Px4, the existing text will
be overwritten by the newly received
message.
2. Hold down A until the flashing cursor (
) appears on the display.
3. Input the text you want.
Use D (+) and B () to cycle through characters at the cursor position,
and then press C to move the cursor to the right. See Inputting Text for
more information.
4. After inputting your text, press A to store it.
Press D.
Press B.
Px2
Px3
Px1
Px4
To edit mail message text
1. In the Mail Mode, use D (+) and B () to scroll through the messages
and display the one you want to edit.
2. Hold down A until the flashing cursor appears on the display.
3. Use C to move the cursor to the character you want to change.
4. Use D (+) and B () to change the character.
5. After making the changes that you want, press A to store them and return
to the mail message screen.
To delete a mail message
1. In the Mail Mode, use D (+) and B () to scroll through the messages
and display the one you want to delete.
2. Hold down A until the flashing cursor appears on the display.
3. Press D and B at the same time to delete the message.
CLEAR
appears to indicate that the message is being deleted. After
the message is deleted, the cursor appears on the display, ready for
input.
4. Input text, or press A to return to the mail message screen.
World Time
World Time shows the current time in 40 cities
(27 time zones) around the world.
If the current time shown for a city is wrong,
check your Timekeeping Mode time and Home
City code settings and make the necessary
changes.
The upper part of the display alternates
between the city code and the day of the week.
All of the operations in this section are
performed in the World Time Mode, which you
enter by pressing C.
To view the time in another city code
In the World Time Mode, press D to scroll
through city codes (time zones) to the east or B
to scroll to the west.
For full information about city codes, see the City
Code Table.
Current time in the zone
of the selected city code
Day of
week
Timekeeping Mode time
(Home time)
City code
To toggle a city code time between Standard Time and Daylight
Saving Time
1. In the World Time Mode, use D and B to
display the city code whose Standard Time/
Daylight Saving Time setting you want to
change.
2. Hold down A for about two seconds to toggle
Daylight Saving Time (DST displayed) and
Standard Time (DST not displayed).
The DST indicator is on the display whenever
you display a city code for which Daylight
Saving Time is turned on.
Note that the DST/Standard Time setting
affects only the currently displayed city code.
Other city codes are not affected.
Stopwatch
The stopwatch lets you measure elapsed time,
split times, and two finishes.
The display range of the stopwatch is 23 hours,
59 minutes, 59.99 seconds.
The stopwatch continues to run, restarting from
zero after it reaches its limit, until you stop it.
The stopwatch measurement operation
continues even if you exit the Stopwatch Mode.
Exiting the Stopwatch Mode while a split time is
frozen on the display clears the split time and
returns to elapsed time measurement.
All of the operations in this section are
performed in the Stopwatch Mode, which you
enter by pressing C.
Seconds
1/100 second
Minutes
Hours
To measure times with the stopwatch
First runner
finishes.
Display time
of first runner.
Display time of
second runner.
Elapsed Time
DD D D B
Start Stop Re-start Stop Clear
Split Time
DB B D B
Start Split Split release Stop Clear
(SPL displayed)
Two Finishes
DB D B B
Start Split Stop Split release Clear
Second runner
finishes.
J J J J
J J J J
J J J J
Alarms
You can set up to five independent multi-function
alarms with hour, minutes, month, day, and day of
the week. When an alarm is turned on, the alarm
tone sounds when the alarm time is reached.
You can also turn on an Hourly Time Signal that
causes the watch to beep twice every hour on the
hour.
There are five alarm screens numbered1
through 5. The hourly time signal screen is
indicated by
SIG
.
Alarm settings (and Hourly Time Signal
settings) are available in the Alarm Mode,
which you enter by pressing C.
Alarm number
Day of
week
Alarm date
(Month Day)
Alarm time
(Hour : Minutes)
Alarm Types
The alarm type is determined by the settings you make, as described below.
Daily alarm
Set the hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting causes the
alarm to sound everyday at the time you set.
Date alarm
Set the month, day, hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting
causes the alarm to sound at the specific time, on the specific date you set.
1-Month alarm
Set the month, hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting
causes the alarm to sound everyday at the time you set, only during the
month you set.