175 Time
• The time separator (usually ‘:’ as in ‘6:19 pm’).
• The date format (e.g. ‘Day Month Year’ or ‘Month Day Year’).
• The date separator (e.g. ‘/’ as in ‘01/03/97’).
You can also set preferences for a standard alarm time if you tend to set alarms
for the same time of day, or for a particular alarm sound to appear when you
set a new alarm.
If you are not interested in making use of world times, and are happy to
use the Time & date command to change the time when clocks go forward
or back, you can ignore this section.
However, if you travel or wish to be precise about world times, you should set
your own time to winter time (in the UK, this is GMT), and modify the
summer time setting when the clocks go forward or back.
You can also take into account the summer times used in the different areas of
the world. Most of the cities on the world map can be included in one of 3
basic areas, or Summer time zones - Europe, Southern and Northern. The
approximate summer times for these zones are:
Europe: End of March to end of October.
Northern: Early April to end of October.
Southern: Late October to end of February.
Each city on the map is associated with one of these zones, or with ‘None’. To
check what the Summer time zone is for a city, select the city in the Map view,
and then select Change city details on the Edit menu.
If the clocks are due to go forward or back in the cities in a particular Summer
time zone, you can set the time.
To set summer time:
1. On the Tools menu, select Summer times.
2. Tick the time zone if it is changing to summer time; remove the tick if it is
changing back to winter time. If your Home city is in that zone, then
‘Home’ is ticked automatically and the MC218 clock will adjust
accordingly.
The clocks, and sunrise and sunset times, for each of the cities associated with
the ‘Summer time zone’ are changed.
Note! If the Home city has a ‘Summer time zone’ of ‘None’ because it is not in
one of these 3 zones, but its clocks are due to change, you can change the
MC218 clock to ‘summer time’ by ticking ‘Home’.
When you travel
Whenever you travel, reset your Home city to the town or city to which you
have travelled. Then, provided that the city details and ‘summer time’ setting
are correct on the MC218 for the city to which you have travelled, the
information in the Map view will automatically be accurate.
SETTING SUMMER TIME
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