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DISPLAY DAY

Posted: Mon 06 Jan 2014 9:36 am
by jim44
Hi
Can i make my display show the day ie..mon tues etc on the watson w- 8681
jim

Re: DISPLAY DAY

Posted: Mon 06 Jan 2014 9:59 am
by AllyCat
Hi Jim,

If you mean on the Console LCD screen (and it's a Fine Offset - which I believe it is) then AFAIK the answer is No. The Console can only be set to display American (MMDDYY) and "Normal" (DDMMYY) date formats.

Displaying a day (as "Text") is not trivial because it cannot be shown sensibly in a 7-segment display cell and is also different in many languages.

Cheers, Alan.

Re: DISPLAY DAY

Posted: Mon 06 Jan 2014 10:52 am
by jim44
Thanks Allan,
Thought i might be able to......still quite pleased with the set up apart from the wind speed unit which failed...bearing kaput......replaced now ok
jim

Re: FINE OFFSET DISPLAY DAY

Posted: Mon 06 Jan 2014 11:16 am
by sfws
jim44 wrote:Hi
Can i make my display show the day ie..mon tues etc on the watson w- 8681
jim
On my touch screen Fine Offset WH1081, touch the date area once, and the options presented in turn are show the day (2 letters), or the year (2 numbers), or show the alarm, depending on how many times you press + or -. 2nd touch of that area allow to change between day then month and the reverse. Subsequent touches allow you to amend each part of the date and time in turn. Try this on your touchscreen Watson.
AllyCat wrote: (and it's a Fine Offset - which I believe it is) then AFAIK the answer is No.
I cannot believe I'm potentially disagreeing with the expert, but he does say 'as far as he knows'.

I have no experience of other models, but I would have thought it quite possible the same options are available on them. If the function is not available on the Watson, then sorry for the intrusion.

Re: DISPLAY DAY

Posted: Mon 06 Jan 2014 2:14 pm
by jim44
okay,
I can altered the display to show the day as you said but it keeps reverting back to show the year 2014
after altering the display to show the day monday what should i press to keep the dispay on the day ????????
sorry to be a pain
jim