Casio 3196 Manuals

1 Operation Guide 3196 MA0905-EA About This Manual • Depending on the model of your watch, display text appears either as dark figures on a light background or light figures on a dark background. All sample displays in this manual are shown using dark figures on a light background. • Button operations are indicated using the letters shown in the illustration. • Each section of this manual provides you with the information you need to perform operations in each mode. Further details and technical information can be found in the “Reference” section. Timekeeping Mode Alarm Mode Stopwatch Mode Countdown Timer Mode Dual Time Mode Press . PM indicator Day of week Seconds Hour : Minutes Month – Day General Guide • Press C to change from mode to mode. • In any mode, press B to illuminate the display for about one second. • In any mode, hold down C for about two seconds to return to the Timekeeping Mode. Timekeeping Use the Timekeeping Mode to set and view the current time and date. To set the time and date 1. In the Timekeeping Mode, hold down A until the seconds start to flash, which indicates the setting screen. 2. Press C to move the flashing in the sequence shown below to select other settings. Seconds Hour Minutes Day Month Year 3. When the setting you want to change is flashing, press D to change it as described below. To change this setting Seconds Hour, Minutes, Year, Month, Day Perform this button operation Press D to reset to 00. Press D to increase the setting. • Pressing D while the seconds are in the range of 30 to 59 resets them to 00 and adds 1 to the minutes. In the range of 00 to 29, the minutes are unchanged. 4. Press A to exit the setting screen. • The day of the week is automatically displayed in accordance with the date (year, month, and day) settings. • The year can be set in the range of 2000 to 2099. • The watch’s built-in full automatic calendar automatically makes allowances for different month lengths and leap years. Once you set the date, there should be no reason to change it except after you have the watch’s battery replaced. To toggle between 12-hour and 24-hour timekeeping In the Timekeeping Mode, press D to toggle between 12-hour timekeeping and 24-hour timekeeping. • With the 12-hour format, the P (PM) indicator appears to the left of the hour digits for times in the range of noon to 11:59 p.m. and no indicator appears to the left of the hour digits for times in the range of midnight to 11:59 a.m. • With the 24-hour format, times are displayed in the range of 0:00 to 23:59, without any indicator. • The 12-hour/24-hour timekeeping format you select in the Timekeeping Mode is applied in all other modes. Alarm number Alarm date (Month – Day) Alarm time (Hour : Minutes) Alarms You can set up to five independent multi-function alarms with hour, minutes, month, and day. When an alarm is turned on, the alarm tone sounds when the alarm time is reached. One of the alarms can be configured as a snooze alarm or a one-time alarm, while the other four are one-time alarms. You can also turn on an Hourly Time Signal that causes the watch to beep twice every hour on the hour. • There are five alarms numbered1 through 5. You can configure Alarm1 as a snooze alarm or a one-time alarm. Alarms 2 through 5 can be used as one-time alarms only. • All of the operations in this section are performed in the Alarm Mode, which you enter by pressing C. 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 time you set, only during the month you set. • Monthly alarm Set the day, hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting causes the alarm to sound every month at time you set, on the day you set. To set an alarm time 1. In the Alarm Mode, use D to scroll through the alarm screens until the one whose time you want to set is displayed. • To set a one-time alarm, display one of the screens indicated by an alarm number from 2 through 5. To set the snooze alarm, display the screen indicated by1. 2. After you select an alarm, hold down A until the hour setting of the alarm time starts to flash, which indicates the setting screen. • This operation automatically turns on the alarm. 3. Press C to move the flashing in the sequence shown below to select other settings. Hour Minutes Month Day 4. While a setting is flashing, press D to increase it. • To set an alarm that does not include a month (Daily alarm, Monthly alarm), set x for the month. Press D until the x mark appears (between 12 and 1) while month setting is flashing. • To set an alarm that does not include a day (Daily alarm, 1-Month alarm), set xx for the day. Press D until the xx mark appears (between the end of the month and 1) while the day setting is flashing. • When setting the alarm time using the 12-hour format, take care to set the time correctly as a.m. or p.m. (P indicator). 5. Press A to exit the setting screen. Alarm Operation The alarm tone sounds at the preset time for 10 seconds, regardless of the mode the watch is in. In the case of the snooze alarm, the alarm operation is performed a total of seven times, every five minutes, until you turn the alarm off or change it to a one- time alarm. • To stop the alarm tone after it starts to sound, press any button. • Performing any one of the following operations during a 5-minute interval between snooze alarms cancels the current snooze alarm operation. Displaying the Timekeeping Mode setting screen Displaying the alarm1 setting screen To test the alarm In the Alarm Mode, hold down D to sound the alarm.