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From: jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: time of year clock chips
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Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 11:11:07 EDT
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In article <8101@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>     I would watch out for chips that have the old daylight savings time 
>> programmed into them.

>I recall none that are aware of daylight savings at all; that is usually

The Motorola 146818 _does_ have a daylight savings mode bit, but the notes
with it state that it doesn't work quite right (especially not since they
changed the DST week!)  I think later versions of the documentation mark
that bit as Reserved, Do Not Use!