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nah, man... it's finito, you can decode them, as you can't use google before so easy question. You mentioned "BINARY CODED DECIMAL" bcd for short, is it so difficult to google for it ?
xsix wrote:you can also reprogramm the timer to give you the time in normal format
You can, but IIRC it confuses Windows 98 (and possible other versions of Windows) because they assume the RTC is using BCD without checking...
Cheers,
Brendan
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