Time Is Strange...

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Time Is Strange...

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Hi,

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Thanks all,
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Post by Solar »

:roll:

Google, binary coded decimal.

Wikipedia, Binary-coded decimal.

'nuff said.
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Post by xsix »

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 ?
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Alls fine now. Thanks.

Yes, sorry I should of searched around better. I was really posting as I wasn't sure whether I did needed to convert from BCD or not.

Thanks again,
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Post by xsix »

you can also reprogramm the timer to give you the time in normal format
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Post by Brendan »

Hi,
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... ;)


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Post by xsix »

i'm talking about OSD, because it's operating system development forum, any question reffers to an OSD i think
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