---
title: "Keeping Time in the Home Office"
type: "article"
slug: "keeping-time-in-the-home-office-3"
url: "http://localhost/article/keeping-time-in-the-home-office-3/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/keeping-time-in-the-home-office-3.md"
published_at: "2026-01-19T20:55:46+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-01-19T20:55:47+00:00"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "Since the Sinclair computers have an internal timing feature, they can be used to make a clock display which will give you the time. Two basic programs are given below to do just that."
category:
  - name: "CATS Newsletter"
    slug: "cats-newsletter"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/cats-newsletter/"
post_tag:
  - name: "TS 1000"
    slug: "ts1000"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ts1000/"
  - name: "Type-in program"
    slug: "type-in-program"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/type-in-program/"
model:
  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 1000"
    slug: "ts-1000"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/ts-1000/"
indiv:
  - name: "Chuck Dawson"
    slug: "chuck-dawson"
    taxonomy: "indiv"
    url: "http://localhost/indiv/chuck-dawson/"
publication_r:
  id: 35941
  title: "CATS Newsletter"
  type: "periodical"
  url: "http://localhost/periodical/cats-newsletter/"
authors_r:
  - name: "Chuck Dawson"
    slug: "chuck-dawson"
    taxonomy: "indiv"
    url: "http://localhost/indiv/chuck-dawson/"
volume: "6"
issue: "9-10"
issues_articles:
  - id: 38885
    title: "CATS v6 n9/10"
    type: "issue"
    url: "http://localhost/issue/cats-v6-n9-10/"
pages: "13, 21"
pubdate: "February/March 1989"
archive_link: false
---

# Keeping Time in the Home Office

Since the Sinclair computers have an internal timing feature, they can be used to make a clock display which will give you the time. Two basic programs are given below to do just that.