Casio 2495 User Manual

USER’S GUIDE 2495

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General Guide

• Press C to change from mode to mode.

• In any mode, press B to illuminate the display.

Timekeeping Mode

Timekeeping

Use the Timekeeping Mode to set and view the current time and date. You can also select the color of the “Multi Illuminator” backlight, which uses LEDs to illuminate the display in different colors.

• In the Timekeeping Mode, press D to toggle the lower part of the display

between the date and world time.

Day of week

AM/PM indicator

Important!

• World Time Mode times will not be correct unless you set the correct current date and time in the Timekeeping Mode. See “To set the time and date” for more information.

• Always use standard time when setting the Timekeeping Mode time and date, even if the area where your Home Time city (the city where you normally use the watch) is located is currently in Daylight Saving Time (summer time). After setting the time, turn DST on or off as required. See “Daylight Saving Time (DST)” for more information.

To set the time and date

3. When the setting you want to change is flashing, use D to change it as

described below.

Seconds DST on/off

City code

Hour, Minutes, Year, Month, Day Backlight color

• Pressing D while the seconds are in the range of 30 to 59 resets them to

unchanged.

• For full information on city codes, see the “City Code Table” at the back of this manual.

• See “To change the backlight color” for information about backlight color settings.

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.

To toggle between 12-hour and 24-hour timekeeping

In the Timekeeping mode, hold down D for about two seconds 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 the A (AM) 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 also applied in all other modes.

Daylight Saving Time (DST)

Daylight Saving Time (summer time) advances the time setting by one hour from Standard Time. Remember that not all countries or even local areas use Daylight Saving Time.

To toggle the Timekeeping Mode time between DST and Standard Time

Hour : Minutes

Month – Day

Seconds HourCity codeDST on/off Minutes

To change this setting

and adds 1 to the minutes. In the range of 00 to 29, the minutes are

DST indicator

World Time Mode Day Counter Mode Telememo Mode Stopwatch Mode Countdown Timer

Press .

Seconds

World timeCity code type indicator

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.

MonthDayBacklight color Year

Perform this button operation

Press D to reset to 00. Press D to toggle between DST on (ON displayed)

and off (OF displayed). Use D to scroll through the available codes until the

one you want to use as your Home Time city is displayed.

Use D to increase the setting. Use D to cycle through the available color settings.

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 to the DST On/Off

setting.

3.Press D to toggle between Daylight Saving Time

(ON displayed) and standard time (OF displayed).

4.Press A to exit the setting screen.

• The DST indicator appears on the display when Daylight Saving Time is turned on.

Mode

To change the backlight color

Backlight color

• The following shows how the available color settings affects the backlight color of the display in each mode.

Mode Timekeeping

Tele memo Alarm

World Time Stopwatch

Day Counter Countdown Timer

1.In the Timekeeping Mode, hold down A until the

seconds start to flash, which indicates the setting screen.

2.Press C eight times until the backlight color setting screen appears, and then use D to cycle through the available color settings as shown below.

Color Setting

Number

Yellow

...........................................

Tangerine Forest

Yellow

Green

Pure Red

Tangerine Forest

Forest Tangerine Green

Alarm Mode

Green

Pure Red

Yellow

...........................................

3. Press A to exit the setting screen.

World Time

Hour : Minutes

City code

Home time (Hour : Minutes

City code type indicator

• 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.

To switch between Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time

In the World Time Mode, hold down A to toggle between Daylight Saving Time and Standard Time.

• The above operation toggles all World Time city codes between Daylight Saving Time and Standard Time. Note that you cannot make settings for individual city codes.

The World Time shows the current time in 40 cities (27 time zones) around the world.

Seconds

• The basic time settings of the Timekeeping Mode and the World Time Mode are synchronized. The Daylight Saving Time (summer time) settings of the two modes, however, are independent of each other.

• 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 city codes (time zones).

• For full information on city codes, see the “City Code Table” at the back of this manual.

DST indicator

Hold down .

DST OFF DST ON

Day Counter

The Day Counter lets you count the number of days from the Timekeeping Mode’s current date to a specific target date.

• Whenever the date specified by any one of the Day Counters matches the date of the Timekeeping Mode (regardless of the Day Counter’s year setting), the DAYS indicator flashes in the Timekeeping Mode and Day Counter Mode screens.

• There are five Day Counter records, each of which can be set with its own text and target date (year, month, and day).

• All of the operations in this section are performed in the Day Counter Mode, which you enter by pressing C.

Alternates at the 1-second interval

Year Month – Day

Target date

Text area

Number of days

DAYS indicator

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To create a new Day Counter record

4. While the cursor is in the text area, use D to scroll through characters at the

cursor position. The character changes in the sequence shown below.

(space)

5. After inputting a character, press C to move to the next character position.

6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 until you input the text you want.

• You can input up to eight characters for the text.

7. After you finish inputting the text you want, press C to skip past any

remaining character positions and move the cursor to the target date.

8. While the year, month, or day setting is flashing, use D to change the

setting.

• You can set a target date in the range of January 1, 1940 to December 31,

2039.

9. After everything is the way you want, press A to exit the setting screen.

• The text area display can show only three characters at a time. Longer text scrolls continuously from right to left. The symbol “s” indicates that the character to the left is the last, and the character to the right is first.

Note

• Use the above procedure to edit Day Counter records, too.

To recall Day Counter records

In the Day Counter Mode, use D to scroll through the Day Counter records.

To delete a Day Counter record

1. In the Day Counter Mode, scroll through the records and display the one you

want to delete.

2. Hold down A until the flashing cursor appears on the display.

3. Press B and D at the same time to delete the record.

• The message CLR appears to indicate that the record is being deleted. After the record is deleted, the cursor appears on the display and today’s date is set as the target date, ready for input.

4. Input data or press A to exit the setting screen.

1.In the Day Counter Mode, use D to scroll through

the Day Counter records until the one you want is on the display.

2.Hold down A until the flashing cursor appears in

the text area of the display, which indicates the setting screen.

3.Press C to move the flashing in the sequence

shown below.

Text area

Character 1 Character 8Character 2

Target date

Day YearMonth

to to

Tel ememo

Name area

Number area

Page number

To create a new Telememo record

(space)

4. When the character you want is at the cursor position, press C to move the

cursor to the right.

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until the name is complete.

• You can input up to eight characters for the name.

6. After you input the name, press C as many times as necessary to move the

cursor to the number area.

• When the cursor is located at the eighth space of the name area, moving the cursor to the right causes it to jump to the first digit of the number. When the cursor is at the 12th digit of the number, moving it to the right (by pressing C) causes it to jump to the first character in the name.

7. Use D to change the character (hyphen, number, or space) at the cursor

position in the number area. The character changes in the following sequence.

8. When the character you want is at the cursor position, press C to move the

cursor to the right.

Telememo lets you store up to 20 records, each containing name and telephone number data. You can recall records by scrolling through them on the display.

• All of the operations in this section are performed in the Telememo Mode, which you enter by pressing C.

1.In the Telememo Mode, use D to cycle through

the record screens until the new data screen appears.

• The new data screen is the one that is blank (contains no name and telephone number).

• If the new data screen does not appear, it means that memory is full. To store another record, you will first have to delete some of the records stored in memory.

2.Hold down A until the flashing cursor (_) appears

in the name area of the display, which indicates the setting screen.

3.Use D to change the character at the cursor

position in the name area. The character changes in the following sequence.

to to

(space)

9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 until you complete number input.

• You can input up to 12 digits for the number.

• The number initially contains all hyphens. You can leave the hyphens or

replace them with numbers or spaces.

10. Press A to store your data and return to the Telememo record screen

(without the cursor).

• The name area can show only three characters at a time, so longer text scrolls continuously from right to left. The last character is indicated by the symbol “s” after it.

• The number area can show up to six digits at a time. If a number has more than six digits, the display automatically switches between the first six digits (counting forward from the first digit) and the last six digits (counting backward from the last digit) of the number. This means that if a number is 12 digits long, the number area switches between the first six digits and the last six digits. If a number is seven digits long, the number area switches between digits 1 through 6, and 2 through 7.

To recall Telememo records

In the Telememo Mode, use D to scroll through Telememo records on the display.

To edit a Telememo record

1. In the Telememo Mode, scroll through the records 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 flashing to the character you want to change.

4. Use D to change the character.

• For details on inputting characters, see “To create a new Telememo record” (step 3 for name input and 7 for number input).

5. After making the changes that you want, press A to store them and exit the

setting screen.

To delete a Telememo record

1. In the Telememo Mode, scroll through the records and display the one you want to delete.

2. Hold down A until the flashing cursor appears on the display.

3. Press B and D at the same time to delete the record.

• The message CLR appears to indicate that the record is being deleted.

After the record is deleted, the cursor appears on the display, ready for input.

4. Input data or press A to exit the setting screen.

Stopwatch

Minutes

Hours

1/100 second

To measure times with the stopwatch

Elapsed Time

Start

Split Time

Start

Two Finishes

Start

The stopwatch lets you measure elapsed time, split times, and two finishes.

• The display range of the stopwatch is 23 hours, 59

Seconds

minutes, 59.99 seconds.

• While the stopwatch is running, it beeps at the top of each elapsed hour.

• 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.

Stop Re-start Stop Clear

Split

(SPL displayed)

Split Stop Split release Clear

First runner finishes. Display time of first runner.

Split release Stop Clear

Second runner finishes.

Display time of second runner.

Countdown Timer

Minutes

Hours

2. Press C to move the flashing between the hours and minutes.

3. While a setting is flashing, use D to increase it.

• To set the star ting value of the countdown time to 24 hours, set

4. Press A to exit the setting screen.

To use the countdown timer

Press D while in the Countdown Timer Mode to start the countdown timer.

• When the end of the countdown is reached and auto-repeat is turned off, the alarm sounds for 10 seconds or until you stop it by pressing any button. The countdown time automatically resets to its starting value after the alarm stops.

• Press D while a countdown operation is in progress to pause it. Press D again to resume the countdown.

• To completely stop a countdown operation, first pause it (by pressing D), and then press A. This returns the countdown time to its starting value.

The countdown timer can be set within a range of 1 minute to 24 hours. An alarm sounds when the

Seconds

countdown reaches zero.

• You can also select auto-repeat, which automatically restarts the countdown from the original value you set whenever zero is reached.

• Countdown timer functions are available in the Countdown Timer Mode, which you enter by pressing C.

To set the countdown start time

1.In the Countdown Timer Mode, hold down A until

the hours of the countdown start time start to flash, which indicates the setting screen.

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