Got a Jeep, comes with a CD manual. 90% of it is how to use the media screen. To find out any information, I have to google it. For instance DTE, I see an readout called DTE and go to the manual, NADA! Found out on the net that it is Distance To Empty. A bunch of other stuff, I did the same. I have no problems with the media center, hardly need the manual.
Once on Antiques Road Show there was a pocket watch that had four seperate mechanisms in it. Regular watch, moon phase, I think a stop watch, and something else. Each had to be wound and set individually.
The bands break, and also, I forget to take it off in the shower, doing dishes etc, so I buy a water resistant model about every 4 years.
Basically the same kind, with a lot functions I don’t need… 3 time zones, 3 alarms, stopwatch, lap timer, countdown timer, etc.
You can even, on this one, make a few words scroll across the face for an occasion, I think….
I guess it’s fun till they stop working, and after that the watch just tells time, which is OK.
There are four buttons around the edge, for setting and using various functions, and sometimes they change which one does something,
like advance the hour, when you’re setting it, or stop the stopwatch…. and I discovered this new one utilises a fifth button, on the front.
I have no idea how you’d spell out the words, to say “Merry Christmas” or “Dr. appt 3pm” on a certain date.
Every watch has come with a small, very thin, piece of paper, with all the instructions and diagrams on it, in a very tiny font., all repeated in 6 or 8 languages…
It’s folded up into many layers, till it’s about a 1 inch cube, and stuffed into an opening in the plastic box/stand.
Hard to make it lie flat…. harder still to read, or follow… very inconvenient.
But as they say, you don’t know what you had till it’s gone….
cos they no longer come with any instructions at all.
Luckily, I’m fairly good at figuring them out…. and there’s an impossibly small pdf on the Timex website.
Now if you were a guy, you would just toss those darned instructions right off the bat and start pushing all the buttons at random till you either figured it out or it exploded, whichever came first. (Usually the latter)
My snazzy (and expensive) new Apple Watch can do a bazillion things that my old $20 Casio never could, but for some strange reason it’s not willing to tell me what month it is. How hard could that have been?
No need to wind. No batteries.It has three hands, and that tiny little window that you can set with the date. I can’t see the window very well, so i don’t use it.
It tells me what the time is with a quick look at my wrist. That it. That’s all i need from it.
Hey, it’s a watch! If it tells the time, and maybe the date, it has done it’s job!
(I admit that with my car’s displays, I still after having had it for a number of years need to refer to the Owner’s Manual to figure out how to do some basic stuff….)
Dirty Dragon about 6 years ago
Use Tokyo time, and subtract a day and a half.
3cranes Premium Member about 6 years ago
Different frame
NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 6 years ago
Got a Jeep, comes with a CD manual. 90% of it is how to use the media screen. To find out any information, I have to google it. For instance DTE, I see an readout called DTE and go to the manual, NADA! Found out on the net that it is Distance To Empty. A bunch of other stuff, I did the same. I have no problems with the media center, hardly need the manual.
F-Flash about 6 years ago
It takes a lickin and keeps on tickin.
Nyckname about 6 years ago
Once on Antiques Road Show there was a pocket watch that had four seperate mechanisms in it. Regular watch, moon phase, I think a stop watch, and something else. Each had to be wound and set individually.
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 6 years ago
I just replaced my Timex digital watch…
The bands break, and also, I forget to take it off in the shower, doing dishes etc, so I buy a water resistant model about every 4 years.
Basically the same kind, with a lot functions I don’t need… 3 time zones, 3 alarms, stopwatch, lap timer, countdown timer, etc.
You can even, on this one, make a few words scroll across the face for an occasion, I think….
I guess it’s fun till they stop working, and after that the watch just tells time, which is OK.
There are four buttons around the edge, for setting and using various functions, and sometimes they change which one does something,
like advance the hour, when you’re setting it, or stop the stopwatch…. and I discovered this new one utilises a fifth button, on the front.
I have no idea how you’d spell out the words, to say “Merry Christmas” or “Dr. appt 3pm” on a certain date.
Every watch has come with a small, very thin, piece of paper, with all the instructions and diagrams on it, in a very tiny font., all repeated in 6 or 8 languages…
It’s folded up into many layers, till it’s about a 1 inch cube, and stuffed into an opening in the plastic box/stand.
Hard to make it lie flat…. harder still to read, or follow… very inconvenient.
But as they say, you don’t know what you had till it’s gone….
cos they no longer come with any instructions at all.
Luckily, I’m fairly good at figuring them out…. and there’s an impossibly small pdf on the Timex website.
But what about people with no internet access?
Chrisstopher about 6 years ago
Now if you were a guy, you would just toss those darned instructions right off the bat and start pushing all the buttons at random till you either figured it out or it exploded, whichever came first. (Usually the latter)
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 6 years ago
My snazzy (and expensive) new Apple Watch can do a bazillion things that my old $20 Casio never could, but for some strange reason it’s not willing to tell me what month it is. How hard could that have been?
55fishwood Premium Member about 6 years ago
If the manual is as tiny as some I’ve seen, a complimentary microscope should be sent so one can read it!
PoodleGroomer about 6 years ago
Clock and calendar are always on the home page, screen saver, and GPS pages.
cuzinron47 about 6 years ago
And it’s got USB port to plug in a keyboard and a mouse.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member about 6 years ago
I have a watch. It’s a Citizen Echo-Drive.
No need to wind. No batteries.It has three hands, and that tiny little window that you can set with the date. I can’t see the window very well, so i don’t use it.
It tells me what the time is with a quick look at my wrist. That it. That’s all i need from it.
Sisyphos about 6 years ago
Hey, it’s a watch! If it tells the time, and maybe the date, it has done it’s job!
(I admit that with my car’s displays, I still after having had it for a number of years need to refer to the Owner’s Manual to figure out how to do some basic stuff….)