Change 24 hour clock to 12 hour clock

[dipwaded]

Just installed a new battery last weekend on the kid's 1999 new beetle and the darned clock is reading 24 hours . I know I changed it to 12 hour reading once before , but forgot .. The owners' manual and Bentleys' Shop Manual gives me no help here either..
thanks everyone, in advance..
dip-wad

[geezerb]

Just hold both the hour and the minute buttons in for a few seconds and it will change.

[Growler]

Originally Posted by geezerb

Just hold both the hour and the minute buttons in for a few seconds and it will change.

when I do that on my car it changes from Farenheit to celcius...

[yellow1.8T]

yeah hold the two buttons but with the key out of the ignition, and it should change,

[dipwaded]

I spend about a half an hour yesterday looking for this info.I saw the part about holding both buttons down for the F-C temperature change, but nowhere in either of the VW books ( shop manual OR the VW books that are the original New Beetle glove-box books ) does it have anything to change the temp scaling .. thanks for the info people..
have a fun day .. dip-wad

[LauraLadyBug]

my handbook says "with ignition off, hold both H and M buttons down for longer than 3 seconds". So key out and hold fo rmore than 3 seconds - that should do it.
Mine was set wrong when I got it.

[dipwaded]

Just out of curiosity , what page in your "original VW handbook" does it tell you about changing the Outside Temp guage setting ????
My books are for the 1999 VW New Beetle. ( maybe they realized they had ommited this info part-way thru the printing OR if your books are for a newer VW Beetle..?
let me know
thanks

[LauraLadyBug]

Originally Posted by dipwaded

Just out of curiosity , what page in your "original VW handbook" does it tell you about changing the Outside Temp guage setting ????
My books are for the 1999 VW New Beetle. ( maybe they realized they had ommited this info part-way thru the printing OR if your books are for a newer VW Beetle..?
let me know
thanks

Well, mine is a 2001, the info about the clock is page 3.48 (section 3 how does it work? page 48)
The temperature gauge info is page 48 also. And the instructions are the same, so mine is set for F and 12 hour clock, not sure if you can have F and 24 hour, or C and 12 hour?
Hope this helps