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Setting the time and date

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You can set the time and date in the computer either manually or, if it is connected to the internet, automatically from an internet time server. In either case can you make use of the the Configure plug-in described on page (ref) in the chapter Changing the computer’s configuration. Alternatively, you can open the same Time and date setup dialogue from Alarm’s icon bar menu item Set clock…:

Setting an alarm

To define an alarm, click on the time display on the icon bar to open the Set alarm dialogue:

Choose the date and time of the alarm by clicking on the arrows above and below the date and time boxes. It is also possible to type the required date and time directly into the boxes — except for the month.

• In the Message box, type the text that you want displayed when the alarm goes off.
• Click on Save to define the alarm, and click Accept in the confirmation dialogue that opens:

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If you have set Automatically update Alarm database in the Alarm choices dialogue described below, that is it. If not, see below Saving alarms . When an alarm is set, the border of Alarm’s icon on the icon bar changes colour:

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Urgent

You can mark an alarm as urgent by clicking on the Urgent box. It will then sound an audible alarm when it goes off.

Recurring alarm (‘Repeating alarm’ renamed)

You can set an alarm to go off more than once by switching on the Recurring alarm option. Doing this displays some further options:

Use the radio buttons and arrow icons to specify whether you want the alarm to recur by calendar definition (as in the example above), or by a pattern definition (as in the example below):

To limit the current alarm to the working week, click Mon — Fri. To limit all your alarms to the working week by default, choose the Recurring alarms option in the Alarm Choices dialogue.

You can define more than one alarm by simply repeating the Set alarm procedure.

Saving alarms

When not automatically saved, open the list of alarms (if not already open) by clicking Alarms… on the icon bar time display menu. The title bar of this window shows the name of the alarms file with an asterisk appended if updates have not yet been saved. To complete setting of any new or changed alarms, click Menu over the list of alarms, slide from Save as alarms to the Save as box, and click OK:

When an alarm goes off

When the alarm time is reached, a window similar to the ones below appears on the screen:

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If it is not a repeating alarm, cancel the alarm and remove the window by clicking on Accept or click Menu on the window and choose Accept alarm.

Configuring the Alarm choices

The Alarm choices dialogue allows you to configure:Choices dialogue allows you to configure:

• how alarms are acted upon
• how the alarm database is used
• the alarm display format
• GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) and BST (British Summer Time) time zone switching.

If your computer is locked (password protected) you won’t be able to change any Alarm Choices until it is unlocked.

To change the Alarm choices:

1. Click Menu over the Alarm icon on the icon bar.
2. Select Choices…
3. Change the options to suit your needs.
4. Click Set to save the options.

Alarms are silent unless urgent

Continuous beep

Turn beep off after

Automatically update the alarm database

Confirm alarm deletions

Display format

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Typing in your own formats

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For information on how to set up your own formats, see Time and date display formats. The format you specify will also be saved when the Set button is clicked.

Switch between GMT and BST automatically

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Browsing through your alarms

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h2. Alarm configuration

The settings you have chosen when configuring the Alarm setup options described above are stored in the string value of system variable Alarm$Options. This specifies values for keywords -timeout, -weekwork and -format, The default is:

Set Alarm$Options -format "%z12:%mi:%%se %pm. %zdy/%zmn/%yr"

The choices shown above, in Configuring the Alarm setup options, would be encoded as:

Set Alarm$Options -timeout 10 -weekwork 62 -format "%w3 %zdy %m3 %24:%mi"

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Time and date display formats

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