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18C, RTC trouble
Message #1 Posted by Thomas Radtke on 1 Apr 2004, 9:02 a.m.

Hi all,

this is not an april fool: Starting today, the real time clock of my 18C is going wild. It insists on today being the 4th instead of the 1st, no matter how often I try to readjust it. Ok, I know I'm not able to fix it, I only wanted to share this info. Heck, I really got used to this nice and easy to use calculator:(.

Thomas

      
Re: 18C, RTC trouble
Message #2 Posted by bill platt on 1 Apr 2004, 10:57 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Thomas Radtke

Hi Thomas,

Yes, you are not going crazy---that is an Easter-Egg. If you have the machine set to commas rather than periods, when you get to April 1, the machine starts to give faulty time. All you have to do is set it to periods and then run a self-test. Then it will work correctly.

regards,

bill

            
Re: foolish 18C:)
Message #3 Posted by Thomas Radtke on 1 Apr 2004, 5:12 p.m.,
in response to message #2 by bill platt

Now I'm glad to be such a patient person, not having thrown away that joker:).

Thanks a lot, Bill!


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