Time 174
To add a place:
1. On the Edit menu, select Add city.
2. Type the name of the city, its country, the latitude and longitude if known
(this allows accurate distances and sunrise and sunset times to be
calculated), the telephone area code, the GMT offset, and ‘Summer time
zone’ (see ‘Setting summer time’ later in the chapter).
3. Position the intersection of the cross hairs on the town or city location,
using the pen or the arrow keys.
You can select the command on the Edit menu to subsequently change any of
the city details.
Note! You can only delete a non-capital city that you have added to the map
yourself. To do this, select it at the bottom of the screen and then select the
appropriate command on the Edit menu.
Adding a country
If a country you deal with is not included in the Map view, you can add it
To add a country:
1. On the Edit menu, select Add country.
2. Type the country’s name, its national dialling code, its national dialling
prefix (i.e. the digit(s) that needs to be dialled immediately prior to each
city area code when telephoning from one city to another within the
country) and its international dialling prefix.
3. Each country must have a capital city, and a dialog is automatically
displayed for you to create one. Complete it as in the previous section.
4. Position the cross hairs on the capital city’s location, using the pen or
arrow keys.
You can select the commands on the Edit menu to change any of the country
or capital city details.
Note! You can only delete a country that you have added to the map yourself.
To do this, select it at the bottom of the screen and then select the appropriate
command on the Edit menu.
To change the city clocks from ‘analog’ to ‘digital’, or vice-versa, tap the
clock that is displayed next to either the Home or selected city. You can also
change the toolbar clock by tapping it.
The distance from the Home city to the selected city is given in the currently
selected units (Kilometres, Miles or Nautical miles). These units can be
changed using the command on the View menu.
To customize time settings:
1. On the Tools menu, select Formats.
2. Now you can change:
• The clock format, e.g. from 12- to 24-hours.
CUSTOMIZING TIME
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