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From: george@wombat.bungi.COM (George Scolaro)
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Subject: Re: How does the Dallas Semiconductor chip retain the time?
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Date: 29 May 91 15:12:14 GMT
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[In the message entitled "How does the Dallas Semiconductor chip retain the time?" on May 27, 15:27, Jordan K. Hubbard writes:]
> 
> Not having any specs on my chip (I got it from Steve Liggett), I was
> wondering..
> 

It does use a lithium battery. As per most lithium batteries that are drained
at leakage current levels, the lifetime is a nominal 10 years. Either that or
it has a non-volatile time offset which it then applies to the time value it
obtains from WWV (US standard time transmissions) via its tiny radio
receiver :-)

P.S. Congrats on fixing your broken traces...

best regards,

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George Scolaro
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