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MANUAL

Model GB01

Excalibur World Time Globe

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: Installing or Replacing Batteries . . . . . page 4

CHAPTER 2: World Time Globe Structure. . . . . . . . page 4

CHAPTER 3: Function of Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . page 5

CHAPTER 4: Understanding the LCD display . . . . . . page 6

CHAPTER 5: Using the buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . page 8

Setting local time
Choosing the clock and date displays
Choosing Fahrenheit or Centigrade
Setting the alarm on local time
International alarm clock
Turning daylight saving time on or off
Viewing information on cities within a time zone
Displaying home time
Adjusting the time zone

CHAPTER 6: Special Care & Handling . . . . . . . . . page 13

CHAPTER 7: Battery Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 13

CHAPTER 8: Limited 90-Day Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 14

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C

ongratulations on your purchase of Excalibur
Electronic’s World Time Globe. Simply

align the globe’s Time Zone Bar with a city
and watch as that city’s current time appears on the
LCD, along with other information, such as the coun­try name, local date, day of the week, and even the
city’s monthly mean temperature. Then spin the
globe slowly and watch as the hour, day and date
change. We’re sure you’ll agree

—not only is your
new globe beautiful to look at, it’s fascinating and
educational as well!

The legendary King
Arthur brandished a
magic sword, Excalibur,
from which we take our
company name. With
this unique weapon in his
hands, he could not be
vanquished.

Although Excalibur
Electronics can’t claim
the magical secrets of
Merlin, King Arthur’s
court wizard, sometimes
our patented technology
may make it seem as if
we could.

We make you think.

World Time Globe’s buttons are
easy to use.

SET This button is used to set or

change the time, year, month,
date, 12 or 24 hour clock system,
Centigrade/Fahrenheit and alarm
time. If you press this button and
then take no further action, after

10 seconds the World Time
Globe returns to the display

mode showing city names.

RESET/up Press this button to

select a city representing your

HOME TIME. Press this button also

to increase numbers when set­ting the date or time, to select
Centigrade or Fahrenheit, and to

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Layout of World Globe

3. Functions of Buttons

1. Installing or Replacing Batteries

Batteries should be installed only
by an adult. Excalibur’s World
Time Globe requires 4 AA batter­ies. To install batteries, carefully
lay the World Globe on its side
on a soft surface, such as a towel
or magazine. You’ll find the bat­tery compartment on the bottom
of the unit.

Use a small Phillips screwdriver
to remove the screw. Lift off the
battery compartment lid. Install 4
AA batteries, making sure to
match the polarity (+ and -) with
the diagram inside the battery
compartment. Place the battery
compartment lid’s tabs in their
slots and snap the compartment
door back on. Replace the screw
and tighten it gently.

Special Note: When you replace
the batteries, the city you may
have chosen to display on your
screen could return to the first
city listed in the preset sequence.
In this case, simply press the

CITY

button until you see the name of
the city you want to have dis­played. Likewise, if you previ­ously elected to have

HOME TIME

displayed for your time zone
rather than a city name

, you’ll

need to press the

RESET button

once quickly to display

HOME

TIME

again on the screen. (See

page 11.)

Remember to install fresh batter­ies if you have adjusted the con­trast and the LCD display
remains difficult to read.

Time Zone Bar Align the city
you would like information
about along this bar. The local
time will appear on the LCD,
plus more information about the
city.

The Globe The globe provides
you a map of the world which
can be spun. Turning the globe

changes the axis of time.

Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
Your display screen provides
information about cities includ­ing name, local time and date,

GMT, current day of the week,

country name, country code, area
code and monthly mean temper­ature. It also shows the time set

2. World Time Globe Structure

SET

RESET
up

CITY
down

ALARM
on/off

TIME ZONE
BAR

LIQUID
CRYSTAL
DISPLAY
(LCD)

ALARM When the alarm function

is enabled, a bell is shown mid­way down the display on the
left. When the alarm sounds,
two bells are shown alternately.
(When the alarm sounds, it con­tinues for a minute before stop­ping automatically. Or you can
press any button to turn off the
alarm sound.)

CITY NAME At the top of the LCD

display you’ll see a city name,
which changes as you turn the
globe. If you stop turning the
globe, and instead press the

CITY

button repeatedly, the names of
seven cities which share the
same time zone will appear indi­vidually on the screen. Hold
down the

CITY button for more

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choose between the 12 and 24
hour clock and optional date dis­plays.

CITY/down Press this button

repeatedly to scroll through the
names of seven cities that share a
time zone. The display will con­tinue to show the information for
whichever city you last selected.
If you’d like to show your home
location’s time on the display,
but your city’s name is not
among those listed, turn the
globe until your time zone infor­mation appears on the screen,
and press

RESET. The LCD will

then show HOME TIME along with
your local time, date and day of
the week.

Hold the CITY button down to
cause the LCD to display infor­mation about a selected city,
including the country name
(abbreviated as 3 letters), the
country and area codes and MMT
(Monthly Mean Temperature

abbreviated.

)

ALARM on/off Press this button

to enable or disable the alarm
function. Once you’ve enabled
the alarm, a bell appears on the
LCD.

CONTRAST The contrast knob is

located on the bottom side of the
supporting base near the battery
compartment. Turn this knob to
adjust the brightness of the LCD
display.

Note: The contrast of
the LCD is dependent on the
strength of the batteries.

GMT In the upper left corner of

your display you’ll see

GMT, the

abbreviation for Greenwich
Mean Time. The time zone for
London is set at

GMT 0, and all

other time zones in the world are
designated relative to Greenwich
Mean Time. For example,

GMT 7,

the time zone for Bangkok,
shows that the time in Bangkok
is seven hours ahead of London
time. On the other hand, the time
zone for Los Angeles is

GMT -8,

indicating that Los Angeles is
eight hours behind London’s

GMT 0.

You can select either a 12 hour
or 24 hour clock. If you set your
clock based on the 12 hour sys­tem,

AM or PM will be displayed

below the

GMT time zone. If you

choose the 24 hour system, AM
and PM are not shown.

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Layout of LCD Display

4. Understanding
the LCD Display

CITY

SECONDS

DATE

GMT
ZONE

AM/PM

TIME

DAY

Next the flashing indicator tells
you to set the date, beginning
with the year. Press

UP or DOWN

until you arrive at the correct
year, then press

SET. Then use

the

UP or DOWN buttons to scroll

to the correct month, and press

SET. Finally, press UP or DOWN to

input the day of the month, and
press

SET. (The day of the week

adjusts automatically according
to the date you have set.)

CHOOSING 12- OR 24 HOUR
CLOCK AND DATE DISPLAYS

Yo u
can choose to have the time dis­played according to either the
12 or the 24 hour clock system.
You can also choose between
two formats for displaying the
date,

YYYY/MM/DD or

DD/MM/YYYY. (For example,

2003 4 29 can be changed to
29 4 2003.) With the alarm

disabled, press

SET six times

until 12

HOUR or 24 HOUR

appears at the top of the screen.
Press

UP or DOWN repeatedly

until both the time display and
the date display are in the format
you prefer. You can press

SET to

exit this menu, or simply wait 10
seconds until the main display
returns to the screen.

Or, after setting the time and

date and pressing

SET, you’ll see

that either 12

HOUR or 24 HOUR

appears then at the top of the
screen. Press

UP or DOWN repeat-

edly to select the desired date
and time formats, and then press

SET. (If you don’t wish to

change the current setting, sim­ply press

SET.) To escape this

menu, press

SET twice, or wait 10

seconds until the LCD returns to
the main display.

CHOOSING FAHRENHEIT OR
CENTIGRADE

When the alarm is

disabled, press

SET repeatedly

until either

FAHR or CENT appears

at the top of the screen. Next
push

UP or DOWN once to select

the alternate temperature indica­tor. Then press

SET, or just wait

ten seconds, allowing the LCD
to return to the main display.

Or, after setting the time, date
and 12 or 24 hour clock, you’ll
see that either c

ENTIGRADE or

FAHRENHEIT will flash at the top

of the display. You can use the

UP

or DOWN buttons also at this time
to change the setting, and then
press

SET. (If you don’t wish to

change the current setting, sim­ply press

SET.)

SETTING THE ALARM ON LOCAL

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than a second, and you’ll see
that city’s country name, coun­try telephone code and area code
alternate with the monthly mean
temperature.

TIME In the center of the LCD,

the current hour, minute and sec­onds are shown for the selected
time zone. (The time will adjust
as the globe is turned.) If the
alarm function is set, the display
shows the alarm time.

DATE AND DAY OF THE WEEK

The date and day of the week in
a time zone are shown below the
time display. You can select from
two formats,

MM/DD/YYYY or

YYYY/DD/MM).

DST If the city you have selected

operates on Daylight Saving
Time, World Time Globe auto­matically adds one hour to stan­dard time and displays

DST on

the LCD. If a city doesn't operate
on Daylight Saving Time, or if
DST is not currently in effect for
that location, World Time Globe
knows to subtract an hour to
revert to standard time. (You can
also enable or disable the

DST

function if necessary. See page

10.)

SETTING YOUR LOCAL TIME AND
DATE

First check that the alarm
is off. (No bell should be on the
display.) If the alarm is enabled,
press ALARM ON/OFF once to dis­able it.

Next position the Time Zone Bar
by the city or location you are in.
(You can verify that you have
positioned the bar appropriately
by pressing CITY. Names of
cities which share your time
zone should appear consecutive­ly on the screen.)

Then press SET. (SET TIME should
appear at the top of the display
and the hour digit will flash.)
Use the UP or DOWN buttons to
scroll through the numbers until
you arrive at the correct hour,
and press SET. (If you don’t need
to change the hour, simply press

SET a second time to jump to the

minutes.) Next the minutes will
flash. Press UP or DOWN to scroll
through numbers until you arrive
at the correct minutes. (If you
don’t need to change the min­utes, simply press SET a second
time to jump to the date.) Press

SET.

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5. Using the
Buttons

hour will be added to standard
time.

If

DST is set and you keep press-

ing

SET until you hear a beep,

DST is then disabled, DST will

disappear from the LCD and an
hour will be subtracted in order
to return to standard time.

If you replace the batteries, the
Daylight Saving Time function
will be returned to its factory­preset state. Remember then to
enable or disable the

DST func-

tion as explained above.

TO VIEW OTHER NAMES AND
INFORMATION ABOUT CITIES
WITHIN A SELECTED TIME ZONE

Press CITY until you see the
name of the city you want. (If
you do not find it, the city is not
in the globe’s database.) Then, to
view information about the
selected city, hold down

CITY for

at least a second and watch as
information alternates on the
screen.

HOME TIME DISPLAY When your

local time zone is displayed, you
can press

RESET to display HOME

TIME

rather than the name of a

city on the LCD. Press

RESET

again to return to the city name.

ADJUSTING THE TIME ZONE

World Time Globe has been
carefully manufactured to ensure
accuracy in showing the correct
time zones for cities around the
world. There exists the slight
possibility, however, that an
incorrect time zone might be
shown. When aligned with the
Time Zone bar, New York City
should show a

GMT of -5. If you

align the Time Zone Bar with
New York City but the display
shows different time zone infor­mation, for example,

GMT -6, the

zone for Chicago, you need to
adjust the time zone as follows.

Turn the globe until the correct
information for New York’s time
zone (

GMT -5) appears on the

LCD. Then press the

RESET but-

ton until you hear a beeping
sound. While continuing to hold
down

RESET, turn the globe until

the Time Zone Bar is aligned
with New York City. Then
release the

RESET button. Your

time zone settings should now be
correct.

Time zones change about every
15 degrees longitude, starting
from Greenwich Mean Time.
World Time Globe is designed to
be precise in its information.

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TIME To set the alarm, press the

ALARM button until a bell

appears on the screen at the left.
Then press

SET. SET ALARM will

appear then at the top of your
screen, and the hour digits will
flash. Use the

UP or DOWN button

to scroll to the correct hour, and
then press

SET. (Or simply press

SET a second time if you don’t

wish to change the hour.)
Next the minutes will flash.

Press the

UP or DOWN buttons to

select the minutes, and then
press

SET. The time you want

your alarm to go off is now set.
The alarm will sound for one
minute and then shut off auto­matically, or you can shut it off
by pressing any button.

INTERNATIONAL ALARM CLOCK

This is a special feature which
can come in very handy. Perhaps
you are at home in Chicago and
want Chicago time to be dis­played on the screen, but you
need to remember to call some­one in Bangkok at 5 pm
Bangkok time. Here’s what to
do: turn the globe until the Time
Zone Bar is aligned with
Bangkok. Bangkok’s local time
appears on the screen. Next set
the alarm to 5 pm. (See instruc-

tions beginning on page 9 for
setting the alarm.) After setting
the alarm, turn the globe back to
your location (in this example,
Chicago.) Chicago time will
then be displayed on the screen,
but the alarm will sound when it
is 5 pm in Bangkok.

TURNING DST ON OR OFF World

Time Globe knows when and
where to add or subtract for stan­dard and Daylight Saving Time.
However, in the event that a city
adopts a new arrangement with
respect to

DST, you might need to

turn

DST on or off manually.

To do this, press

SET for longer

than a second until you hear a
short beep.

DST will either

appear or disappear on the LCD.
If you change your mind and
need to reverse your action, sim­ply press

SET again for longer

than a second until you hear
another short beep.

You can also press

SET repeated-

ly until you hear a beep sound to
enable and disable the Daylight
Saving Time function manually.

If

DST was not set and you press

the

SET button until you hear the

beep,

DST is then enabled, DST

will appear on the LCD and an

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play.

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For example, Seoul is located
between Tokyo and Beijing, and
the globe knows that Seoul
shares Tokyo’s time zone. It can
occur, however, if you spin the
globe so that the Time Zone Bar

passes Seoul, that the LCD will
display the information for
Beijing instead. In such a case,
turn the globe forwards or back­wards until the correct time zone
information returns to the dis-

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6. Special Care & Handling

• Avoid rough handling such
as bumping or dropping.

• Avoid moisture and
extreme temperatures. For
best results, use between
the temperatures of 39ºF

and 100ºF (4º C and 38º C).

• Clean using only a slightly
damp cloth. Do not use
cleaners with chemical
agents.

7. Battery Information

• Only adults should install
batteries.

• Your World Globe uses 4
AA batteries, not included.

• Do not mix alkaline, stan­dard (carbon-zinc) or re­chargeable (nickel-cadmi­um) batteries.

• Do not mix old and new
batteries.

• Do not use rechargeable
batteries.

• Remove exhausted batteri­es from the unit.

• Do not short circuit battery
terminals.

• Remove batteries and store
them in a cool, dry place
when not in use.

• To avoid explosion or leak­age, do not dispose of bat­teries in a fire or attempt to
recharge alkaline or other
non-rechargeable batteries.

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8. Limited 90-Day Warranty

EXCALIBUR ELECTRONICS, INC., warrants to the original
consumer that its products are free from any electrical or
mechanical defects for a period of 90 DAYS from the date of
purchase. If any such defect is discovered within the warranty
period, EXCALIBUR ELECTRONICS, INC., will repair or
replace the unit free of charge upon receipt of the unit, shipped
postage prepaid and insured to the factory address shown at
right.

The warranty covers normal consumer use and does not cover
damage that occurs in shipment or failure that results from
alterations, accident, misuse, abuse, neglect, wear and tear,
inadequate maintenance, commercial use, or unreasonable use
of the unit. Removal of the top panel voids all warranties. This
warranty does not cover cost of repairs made or attempted out­side of the factory.

Any applicable implied warranties, including warranties of
merchantability and fitness, are hereby limited to 90 DAYS
from the date of purchase. Consequential or incidental damages
resulting from a breach of any applicable express or implied
warranties are hereby excluded. Some states do not allow lim­itations on the duration of implied warranties and do not allow
exclusion of incidental or consequential damages, so the above
limitations and exclusions in these instances may not apply.

The only authorized service center in the United States is:

Excalibur Electronics, Inc.

13755 SW 119th Ave

Miami, Florida 33186 U.S.A.

Phone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

www.ExcaliburElectronics.com

Ship the unit carefully packed, preferably in the original carton,
and send it prepaid, and adequately insured. Include a letter,
detailing the complaint and including your daytime telephone
number, inside the shipping carton.

If your warranty has expired and you want an estimated fee for
service, write to the above address, specifying the model and
the problem.

PLEASE DO NOT SEND

YOUR UNIT WITHOUT

RECEIVING AN ESTIMATE FOR

SERVICING. WE CANNOT

STORE YOUR UNIT!

We make you think.

Excalibur Electronics, Inc.

13755 SW 119th Ave

Miami, Florida 33186 U.S.A.

Phone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

www.ExcaliburElectronics.com