Introduction.

Workshop PG5
Resources
3.1.2 Time
Most of the PCD's have a built in RTC (real time clock ). ( PCD1.M120/130
and all the PCD2/4/6). You can load the date and time into a register with a
special instruction.
The example shows you how to read the time in your program.
Instruction list program:
COB 0
0
RTIME R 1
ECOB
FUPLA program:
(FBox: Time Related, Time )
This program reads the time from the clock and copies the value into register
R1. Look what the value represents:
R 1 = 093510
09 o'clock 35 minutes and 10 seconds
R 2 = 073990210
week 07, day no. 3 ( Wednesday ), the
10th of Feb 99
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