Casio 2529 Owner's Manual

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USER’S GUIDE 2529

About This Manual

• 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.

General Guide

•Press Cto change from mode to mode.

•In any mode, press Bto illuminate the display.

Timekeeping Mode

World Time Mode

Day Counter Mode

Press .

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 Dto toggle the lower part of the display between the date and world time.

Hour : Minutes

Day of week
AM/PM	Press .
indicator
	Seconds

Month – Day City code type indicator World time

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

1. In the Timekeeping Mode, hold down Auntil the seconds start to flash, which indicates the setting

screen.

2. Press Cto move the flashing in the sequence shown below to select other settings.

Seconds	DST on/off	City code	Hour	Minutes
Backlight color	Day		Month	Year

3.When the setting you want to change is flashing, use Dto change it as described below.

To change this setting	Perform this button operation
Seconds	Press D to reset to 00.
DST on/off	Press Dto toggle between DST on (ON displayed)
	and off (OF displayed).
City code	Use Dto scroll through the available codes until the
	one you want to use as your Home Time city is
	displayed.
Hour, Minutes, Year, Month, Day	Use Dto increase the setting.
Backlight color	Use Dto cycle through the available color settings.

•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.

•For full information on city codes, see the “City Code Table”.

•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.

Telememo Mode Stopwatch Mode Countdown Timer						Alarm Mode
				Mode

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

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 Ato exit the setting screen.

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

To change the backlight color

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.

Backlight color

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

	Color Setting
	Number	1	2		3
	Mode
	Timekeeping		Tangerine		Forest
	Telememo	Pure Red
			Yellow		Green
	Alarm
	World Time	Tangerine	Forest		Pure Red
	Stopwatch	Yellow	Green
	Day Counter	Forest	Pure Red		Tangerine
	Countdown Timer	Green ...........................................		...........................................	Yellow

World Time

Hour : Minutes

City code

Seconds

Home time (Hour : Minutes)

City code type indicator

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

•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 Dto scroll city codes (time zones).

•For full information on city codes, see the “City Code Table”.

•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 Ato toggle between Daylight Saving Time and Standard Time.

DST indicator

Hold down .

DST OFF

DST ON

•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.

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Day Counter

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

	Alternates at	Text area
	the 1-second
	interval
		Number of
	Year Month – Day	days
	Target date	DAYS indicator

•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.

To create a new Day Counter record

1. In the Day Counter Mode, use Dto scroll through the Day Counter records until the one you want is on the

display.

2. Hold down Auntil the flashing cursor appears in the

text area of the display, which indicates the setting

screen.

3. Press Cto move the flashing in the sequence shown below.

Text area

	Character 1			Character 2			Character 8
				Target date
	Day			Month			Year

4.	While the cursor is in the text area, use Dto scroll through characters at the cursor
	position. The character changes in the sequence shown below.
	(space)	to	to
5.	After inputting a character, press Cto 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 Dto 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 Ato 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 Dto 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 Auntil the flashing cursor appears on the display.

3.Press Band Dat 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 Ato exit the setting screen.

Telememo

Name area		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.

Number area

Page number

To create a new Telememo record

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 Auntil 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.
	(space)	to	to
4.	When the character you want is at the cursor position, press Cto 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 Dto change the character (hyphen, number, or space) at the cursor position
	in the number area. The character changes in the following sequence.
	to	(space)
8.	When the character you want is at the cursor position, press C to move the cursor
	to the right.
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 Cto move the flashing to the character you want to change.

4.Use Dto 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 Band Dat 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 Ato exit the setting screen.

Stopwatch

Minutes

Hours Seconds

1/100 second

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.

•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.

To measure times with the stopwatch

Elapsed Time

Start			Stop		Re-start		Stop		Clear
Split Time
Start			Split		Split release		Stop		Clear
			(SPL displayed)
Two Finishes
Start			Split		Stop		Split release		Clear
			First runner		Second runner		Display time of
			finishes.		finishes.		second runner.
			Display time of
			first runner.

Countdown Timer

Minutes

Hours Seconds

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

2.Press Cto move the flashing between the hours and minutes.

3.While a setting is flashing, use Dto increase it.

• To set the starting value of the countdown time to 24 hours, set 0:00.

4.Press Ato exit the setting screen.

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