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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

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To define an alarm, click on Alarm’s 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.
• If you have set Automatically update Alarm database in the Alarm choices dialogue described below, that is it. If not, you must save the alarms (see below Saving alarms).

When an alarm is set, the border of Alarm’s time display on the icon bar changes colour:

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The following options are also on the Set alarm window:

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Mon — Fri

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Task alarm

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Urgent

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Recurring alarm

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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 dialogue.

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

Saving alarms

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When alarms are not being 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 one below appears on the screen. Click Accept to dismiss the window.

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If Alarm is not running when an alarm is due to go off, the alarm will be triggered next time Alarm is started. If the alarm is a recurring alarm, you will receive a message for the first occurrence due for the period when Alarm was not running, but not for subsequent ones.

Configuring the Alarm choices

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To change the Alarm choices:

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

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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This option saves your alarms in an alarm file which, by default, is Choices:Alarm.Alarms. You can use the Save as box to drag the file elsewhere, in which case its use is described below in Alarm files.

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Alarm configuration

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Some of 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 defaults are:

-format "%z12:%mi:%%se %pm. %zdy/%zmn/%yr

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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