files) or replace clock battery. Yes, clock has internal small coin type battery for keeping time
when external power is not available. It should last few years when in use, and much longer
than not in use.
Setting Time (and surviving apocalypse)
After everything is up and running first thing you’ll might want to do is to set correct time and
date. Out of the box clock is set to 24 hour (a.k.a. military time) mode. If you are more familiar
with 12 hour mode (AM/PM) sorry, you are out of luck. Just kidding :) You can change modes
by pressing MENU button until you see Settings on the screen. Press SET button. First option
will be 12/24 hour mode. Press INCR button to change it if needed.
Hint: When you see something is flashing it means its selected and ready to be changed with INCR button.
Press MENU button again several times until you see Date/Time on the screen. Press SET
button to select Hours/Minutes, etc. and INCR button to change it. Don’t fret if you accidently
went over current year! Once you hit year 2040 it will go back to 2013. Why 2040? What a silly
question! That’s when either world will end or Xronos Clock will become self-aware and will no
longer need you (which is the same thing). So please be nice to it.
That’s it, now you should have a grasp of how menu system works, and at the end of the
manual you will find especially boring fun schematic of all the menu functions and flows, sorry
no pie charts.
Secondary Functions
As I mentioned earlier (were you paying any attention or just mashing arcade buttons?) each
button has secondary function. Heck some have even more than 2! Xronos clock is practically
Swiss army knife of clocks! Well not really a knife, and not Swiss
, but it’s still pretty versatile!
Most notable is the INCR button a.k.a. (we have ways of making you) TALK button. When not in
any menu pressing INCR button will make Xronos Clock talk. Sorry it probably won’t be most
engaging storytelling, but it will tell you current time, date, inside temperature and even what
your alarms are set to!
Just briefly press and release this button to hear next item. If you pause for more than 6
seconds between presses it will go back to 1st item (i.e. current time). You can also hold INCR
button for 2 or more seconds and once you release it clock will go into continuous talk mode
meaning it will tell you time, date, temperature and alarm settings without you having to press
button after each item. What you clock says is customizable via User Options menu. There you
can choose what you want Xronos to say or not to say. For example you can set it to tell you
only date and temperature, but not Time and Alarm settings.
When alarm sounds INCR button can also be used to turn on “please just few more minutes”
Snoozing. Actually SET button also turns on Snooze. Either one will let you catch some more
zzz’s. That’s pretty much all this “SAD” SET button does when not in the menu :(
