To display system time, To convert system time to hms time, System time – HP 49g Graphing Calculator User Manual

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System time

System time is kept in ticks of the clock. Each tick is 1/8192 of a second in

duration. System time can be converted to standard time (in both decimal

format and HMS format).

To display system time

1.

Press

(d m S TOOLS TICKS.

2. Press (ENTER).

System time is displayed as a binary number.

In RPN mode:

follow step 1.

The

TICKS

command is useful for measming elapsed time.

To convert system time to HMS time

1. Press 0 O

BASE B^R.

2. Enter the system time as a binary number.

For example: # lD6861E78DF52h.

3. Press (ENTER).

The result of this step is the real number equivalent of the specified
system time.

4. Press ©.

5. Enter 29491200.

The result of this step is the specified system time in decimal hours:

17, 542,402.5441.

6. Press (50 -^HMS.

7. Press (Hisf).

8. Select the result of step 5.

This result should now be the argument of the ^HMS command.

9. Press (EiER).

The result is 17,542,402.3239 (that is, 17,542,402 hours, 32 minutes, and
39 seconds.

In RPN mode:

follow steps 2, 1, 5, 4, and 6.

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Date and time arithmetic

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