Casio 3173 Manual De Usuario

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Operation Guide 3173 3246

Your watch has 10 “modes”. The mode you should select depends on what you want to do.

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 View the current date in the Home City

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 Confi gure Home City and daylight saving time (DST) settings

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 Confi gure time and date settings

Timekeeping Mode

View the sunrise and sunset times for a specifi c date

Sunrise/Sunset Mode

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 Determine your current bearing or the direction from your current location to a 

destination as a direction indicator and angle value

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 Determine your current location using the watch and a map

Digital Compass Mode

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 View the barometric pressure and temperature at your current location

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 View a graph of barometric pressure readings

Barometer/Thermometer
Mode

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 View the altitude at your current location

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 Determine the altitude differential between two locations (reference point and 

current location)

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 Record an altitude reading with the measurement time and date

Altimeter Mode

Recall records created in the Altimeter Mode

Data Recall Mode

View the current time in one of 48 cities (31 time zones) around the globe

World Time Mode

Use the stopwatch to measure elapsed time

Stopwatch Mode

Use the countdown timer

Countdown Timer Mode

Set an alarm time

Alarm Mode

General Functions (All Modes)
The functions and operations described in this section can be used in all of the modes.

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 The watch returns to the Timekeeping Mode automatically if you do not perform any button operation 

for two or three minutes in the Sunrise/Sunset, Data Recall, Alarm, or Digital Compass Mode.

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 If you leave a screen with fl ashing digits on the display for two or three minutes without performing any 

operation, the watch exits the setting screen automatically.

Initial Screens
When you enter the World Time, Alarm, or Digital Compass Mode, the data you were viewing when you 
last exited the mode appears fi rst.

Scrolling
The

A and C buttons are used on the setting screen to scroll through data on the display. In most 

cases, holding down these buttons during a scroll operation scrolls through the data at high speed.

Use the Timekeeping Mode to set and view the current time and date.

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 Pressing 

E while in the Timekeeping Mode will cycle through the Timekeeping Mode display formats 

as shown below.

There are two Home City settings: actually selecting the Home City and selecting either standard time or 
daylight saving time (DST).

To confi gure Home City settings
1. In the Timekeeping Mode, hold down 

E until the currently selected 

city code starts to fl ash. This is the city code setting screen.

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 Before the city code starts to fl ash, the message SET Hold

will appear on the display. Keep 

E depressed until SET Hold

disappears and the city code starts to fl ash.

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 The watch will exit the setting mode automatically if you do not 

perform any operation for about two or three minutes.

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 For details about city codes, see the “City Code Table”.

2. Press 

A (East) and C (West) to select the city code you want to use 

as your Home City.

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 Keep pressing 

A or C until the city code you want to select as 

your Home City appears on the display.

3. Press 

D to display the DST setting screen.

4. Use

A to toggle the DST settings between OFF and On.

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 Note that you cannot switch between standard time and daylight 

saving time (DST) while UTC is selected as your Home City.

5. After all the settings are the way you want, press 

E twice to return to the Timekeeping Mode.

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 The DST indicator appears to indicate that Daylight Saving Time is turned on.

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 After you specify a city code, the watch will use UTC* offsets in the World Time Mode to calculate 

the current time for other time zones based on the current time in your Home City.
* Coordinated Universal Time, the world-wide scientifi c standard of timekeeping. 

1. In the Timekeeping Mode, hold down 

E until the currently selected 

city code starts to fl ash. This is the city code setting screen.

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 Before the city code starts to fl ash, the message SET Hold

will appear on the display. Keep 

E depressed until SET Hold

disappears and the city code starts to fl ash.

2. Press 

D to display the DST setting screen.

3. Use 

A to toggle the DST settings between OFF and On.

4. After all the settings are the way you want, press 

E twice to return to 

the Timekeeping Mode.

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 The DST indicator appears to indicate that Daylight Saving Time is 

turned on.

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 The illustration below shows which buttons you need to press to navigate between modes.

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 For about one second after you enter a mode by pressing 

D, a pointer will appear on the display 

pointing the applicable mode name on the watch's bezel.

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 In any mode, press 

L to illuminate the display.

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 You can use buttons 

A, B, and C to enter a sensor mode directly from the Timekeeping Mode or 

from another sensor mode. To enter a sensor mode from the Sunrise/Sunset Mode, Data Recall, World 
Time, Stopwatch, Countdown Timer, or Alarm Mode, fi rst enter the Timekeeping Mode and then press 
the applicable button.