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Telephone settings
Telephone base settings
Set date/time
The answering system announces the day and time of each message prior
to playing it. Before using the answering system, set the date and time as
follows. If you subscribe to caller ID service, the day, month and time are set
automatically with each incoming call. The year must be set so that the day
of the week can be calculated from the caller ID information. You can turn off
the date and time settings of the caller ID service and set the date and time
manually (see
Use caller ID to automatically set date and time
After a power failure, the system prompts you to set the date and time.
To set the date and time manually:
1. When the telephone base is in idle mode, press
MENU/
SELECT
to enter the main menu.
2. Press
q
CID
or
p
DIR
to scroll to
Set date/time
and
then press
MENU
/SELECT.
3. Press
q
CID
or
p
DIR
to choose the month, then press
MENU
/SELECT
, or enter the number using the
dialing keys.
4. Press
q
CID
or
p
DIR
to choose the day, then press
MENU
/SELECT
, or enter the number using the
dialing keys.
5. Press
q
CID
or
p
DIR
to choose the year, or enter
the number using the dialing keys, then press
MENU
/SELECT
to move on to set the time.
6. Press
q
CID
or
p
DIR
to choose the hour, then press
MENU
/SELECT
, or enter
the number using the dialing keys.
7. Press
q
CID
or
p
DIR
to choose the minute, then press
MENU
/SELECT
, or
enter the number using the dialing keys.
8. Press
q
CID
or
p
DIR
to highlight
AM
or
PM
,
or press
2
for
AM
or
7
for
PM
.
Then, press
MENU
/SELECT
to confirm. There is a confirmation tone and the
screen returns to the previous menu.
Note: If the clock is not set when a message is recorded, the system announces, “
Time and day not set,
”
before it plays the message.
SET DATE
MM/DD/YY
Ringers
>Set date/time
SET TIME
HH:MM --
p
q
p
q
p
q