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Date & Time Settings
DATE & TIME SETTINGS
TIME ---------------------------
0907
1
DATE --------------------------
122309
2
DATE FORMAT --------
USA
/EURO
3
YEAR OUTPUT ---------
2
/4
- DIGIT 4
SHUT DOWN TIME -----
05
5
DATE/TIME FORMAT
–
SHORT
6
DONE/EXIT ---------------------------- 0
CHANGE SETTING #: _
Time
Press the #
1
key on the TriCoder keypad to change the
Time
. This will take the cursor to the time setting. You can then enter the time
in 4 digits using the keypad. The TriCoder using a 24 Hour clock or military time format. For example, to enter a time of 3:35 p.m.,
key in
1535
or key in
0907
for 9:07 a.m. Press ENTER to complete the change.
Date
Press the #
2
key on the TriCoder keypad to change the
Date
. This will take the cursor to the date value where you can enter the correct
date 6-digit date in the
mmddyy
format. For example, to set a date of 12/01/2009, you would key
120109
. Press ENTER to complete the
change. You can always press the STATUS key to view the current date and time in both NON PORTABLE mode and during Data
Collection. To set the time in the TriCoder from a host computer, see
Hardware Utilities
for details.
Date Format
Press the #
3
key on the TriCoder keypad to change the
Date Format
. This can be changed from USA, which is
mmddyy
and is the
default, or can be set to EUROPEAN, which uses the international date format of
ddmmyy
.
Year Output
Press the #
4
key on the TriCoder keypad to change the
Year Output
. This option allows you to output the date with a 2-Digit year or as
a 4-Digit year. The default date format is USA setting would be
mmddyy
with a 2-Digit year. If you change this setting to 4-Digit then
the date output would change to
mmddyyyy.
Shut Down Time
Press the #
5
key on the TriCoder keypad to change the
Shut Down Time
. By default this is set to
05
and if the TriCoder is inactive for
more than 5 minutes, it will shut itself down in order to conserve batteries. To resume operation, you must turn the TriCoder back on
using the ON/OFF key. To change the amount of time the TriCoder waits before shutting down key in
5
from the TriCoder keypad.
This will take the cursor to the
Shut Down Time
setting. Key in two digits - the default is 05 (5 minutes) - to correspond to the length
of time in minutes. For example,
01
would be
1 minute.
If you want to prevent the TriCoder from shutting off automatically at all, set
the
Shut Down Time
to
00.
Date/Time Format
There are also alternative output options for the date and time on the TriCoder. The default is the
SHORT
format, which outputs the
date and time as
mmddyy
and
hhmm
with no spaces between characters. The LONG format uses
/
separators for the date, and time
uses
:
separator; so the uploaded date when set to LONG for date would be
mm/dd/yy
and for time
hh:mm
