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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 (rewritten content)Set alarm dialogue:

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(next 3 paragraphs reordered)The following options are also on the Set alarm window:

Task alarm

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Urgent

You can mark an alarm as urgent by clicking on the (replace within paragraph reference)Urgent Alarm setup options box. It will then sound an audible alarm when it goes off.(by) Alarm choices

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 fit into a working week option in the Alarm Choices 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 (insert new paragraph)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 one below appears on the screen: screen. ClickAccept to dismiss the window.

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If it is not a repeating alarm, cancel the alarm and remove the window by clicking on (delete the Accept/Cancel/Defer menu and two descriptive paragraphs)Accept or click Menu on the window and choose Accept alarm.

Configuring the Alarm choices

The Alarm choices dialogue allows you to configure:(‘Configuring the Alarm setup options’ renamed ‘Configuring the Alarm choices’)

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To change the Alarm choices:

Recurring alarms fit into a working week

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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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Alarm configuration h2. Alarm configuration)

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

The Some choices of shown above, in Configuring the settings you have chosen when configuring the Alarm setup options, options would described be above encoded are as: stored in the string value of system variable Alarm$Options. This specifies values for keywords -timeout, -weekwork and -format, The defaults are:

  Set Alarm$Options -timeout 10 -weekwork 62 -format "%w3 "%z12:%mi:%%se %zdy %pm. %m3 %zdy/%zmn/%yr %24:%mi"

(are these okay, or do they need more double quotes and/or escaped double quotes?)The choices shown above, in Configuring the Alarm choices, would be encoded as:

-timeout 10 -weekwork 62 -format "%w3 %zdy %m3 %24:%mi

Time and date display formats

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