Date   : Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:50:25 +0100
From   : Isabel Cisternas & Robert Schmidt <rschmidt@...>
Subject: How to set the RTC? [Was: Re: Help us please!]

> Brian Hughes wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> A disabled friend of ours has a BBC Micro and the date has bad...
> 
> We do not know how to fix it, we have downloaded some documents from
> your site but we are at a loss.
> 
> if we type :
> *time - we get I,FF  I 19FF.21:41:33
> 
> we are unable to use the *settime we have tried but we get a bad
> command
> 
> how can we set the date ? It does not matter what year as it is used
> for a basic but important program.
> 
> Your help would be very grateful
> 
> Frankie Hipwell.
> frankie@...
> 

Hi Frankie!

I won't be able to help you directly, as I have no experience with BBC
Master micros, and can't find any relevant docs on them.  (I'm assuming
it's a Master that your friend has.)  I'm sending a copy of this mail to
the fine chaps on the BBC micro mailing list.  I'm sure somebody there
can tell you how to set the real time clock (RTC).

The behaviour you're seeing could be related to the problem mentioned
at: http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/rjsprowson/bbc/doomsday.htm
It's about a Y2K-bug present in all BBC micros, and a replacement ROM
that fixes it.  It doesn't sound like you'll need that, though.


Best regards,

Robert