Epson HX-20 User Manual

MM DD YY HH

M M S S

You must enter

IWO

digits for each of these units of time. For

example, let’s say that you are reading this in the month of January.

Even though it’s the first month of the year, you may not specify the

month with a “1”. The HX-20 expects two digits, so you must enter

“01” for the month.

The hour (HH) is based on a 24-hour clock. Thus, midnight is 00,

noon is 12, and 9 PM is 21.

Let’s say that it is now nine minutes and thirty-five seconds after

two o’clock on the afternoon of January third, 1983. What numbers
will you enter to specify the date and time?

The date is 1/3/83

The time is 2:09:35 PM

So you should type:

= 010383

140935

010383140935

and press the

key.

Press

at any time before pressing

and you will

abort the initialization process.

Note that no spaces, slashes, or colons separate the numbers

representing month, day, year, hour, minute, and second. The
numbers just run together. So you must be very careful entering
them. If you make a mistake entering the date or time, press the

key or

The screen will clear and you may start

over.

When you have typed in the date and time and pressed the

key, the HX-20 will set its calendar clock appropriately. Then

it will clear all programs and data from its memory. When it has

done so, it will display the menu again. Now the menu will look like
this:

1 MONITOR
2 BASIC