RESEARCH CONCEPTS RC4500 - Time Maintenance

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5.2.2.3 Time Maintenance
The Time Maintenance screen allows the user to set the system and reference (see section 6.2.2) time.
Note that all dates are displayed and entered in day/month/year (DD/MM/YY) format. All times are
displayed and entered in hour/minute/second (HH:MM:SS) format. Refer to
section 2.1.2 for instructions
on entering date and time.
SYSTEM:11/10/97 22:26:40 TIME
DISPLAY:11/10/97 16:26:40 ZONE:UTC
OFFSET: 0
1-DATE 2-TIME 4-ZONE 5-OFFSET
SYSTEM:
Current date and time as maintained by the RC4500’s real-time clock.
DISPLAY:
Current “reference” time that will be displayed in several screens (MANUAL, MENU). This time is offset
from the system time by the OFFSET number of hours described later.
ZONE:
A three character alphanumeric time zone string the user may customize for displaying during the
MANUAL and MENU modes. This string may be changed by selecting action 4-ZONE.
OFFSET:
The number of hours the displayed reference time is offset from system time.
The values for the time parameters may be altered by the actions described next:
1-DATE ENTER DATE DD.MM.YY
This action allows the user to manually set the date. The prompt indicates that the / delimiter for date is
entered by using the (decimal point) key.
2-TIME ENTER TIME HH.MM.SS
This action allows the user to manually set the system time. The prompt indicates that the : delimiter for
time is entered by using the (decimal point) key.
4-ZONE ENTER
3 LETTER TIME ZONE
The user may enter three alphanumeric characters (ex. CST) for a time zone designator.
5-OFFSET ENTER
TIMEZONE OFFSET <-11/+12 HOURS>
The user may enter the number of hours of offset from system time for offsetting displayed time.