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Kitchen timer on 17B/17BII/17BII+/19B/19BII/27S Message #1 Posted by y.miyata on 4 Mar 2010, 1:31 a.m. Does anyone know a way to set an appointment time from the Solver in 17BII ? These calculators have appointment alarm function, thus can be used as a kitchen timer. If you wish to count 8 min for boiling spaghetti (or whatever you want to do), 1. You get the current time in the calculator. 2. Add 8 min to the current time to get the appointment time. 3. Set the appointment time for an alarm. This could be done manually; 1. Select MAIN -> TIME menu. 2. Add 8 min to the current time in your brain to get the appointment time. 3. Select MAIN -> TIME -> APPT -> APTx (x=1 to 9), key-in the appointment time calculated by you to TIME Let�fs do it in a slightly sophisticated manner; 1. Keep a �gTIMER�h equation in Solver TIMER: HMS(HRS(MIN/100)+HRS(CTIME))=ALARM 2. MAIN -> SOLVE -> select TIMER equation -> CALC, input 8 to MIN, calculate ALARM 3. Remaining the ALARM value in the x register (calculator line), set an appointment alarm by MAIN -> TIME -> APPT -> APTx (x=1 to 9) -> TIME O.K., it works fine (please forget a possibility to start boiling spaghetti after 23:52 midnight�c). Step 3 above can be done automatically if I can put the ALARM time within the Solver, probably knowing the internal variable name for the appointment settings. I would like to ask you if there is a way to set the calculated appointment time from the Solver? I hope you understand what I wish to do and somebody here helps me.

Re: Kitchen timer on 17B/17BII/17BII+/19B/19BII/27S Message #2 Posted by Martin Pinckney on 4 Mar 2010, 12:18 p.m., in response to message #1 by y.miyata Only a geek would think of such a thing. It's a cool idea! However, I don't see any reference to alarm functions in the Solver, only date functions. perhaps an undocumented call?

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