ACCEL Query the accelerometer. The three components of the
acceleration vector are returned in the X, Y, and Z registers. Holding the
device facing you, in portrait orientation, and the dock connector
pointing towards the floor, positive X is acceleration toward the left,
positive Y is acceleration downwards, and positive Z is acceleration
away from you -- or, in terms of gravity, positive X is gravity pulling
to the right, positive Y is gravity pulling upwards, and positive Z is
gravity pulling toward you.
Note: Accelerations are returned in units of Earth gravities, not
m/s2 as you might expect. The iPhone API
documentation does not mention the specific conversion factor used by the
device.
LOCAT Query Location Services*.
The location is returned as follows: latitude in X, longitude in Y,
elevation in Z, and horizontal and vertical accuracy in a two-element
vector in T. The latitude and longitude are given in decimal degrees, with
North and East being positive; the elevation and accuracies are given in
meters. If an accuracy is -1, that means that the corresponding measurement
is not valid.
* The iPod touch uses
Skyhook (a proprietary WiFi-MAC-to-location mapping service) to determine
its position; the first generation iPhone uses Skyhook and cellular
triangulation, and the iPhone 3G and 3GS have a built-in GPS receiver. All
of these means of determining the device's location are exposed through the
unified Location Services API.
HEADING Query the compass. This only works on the iPhone 3GS;
other devices return Nonexistent. It returns the following data: magnetic
heading in X, true heading in Y, heading accuracy in Z, and the raw
magnetic vector in a three-element vector in T. The headings and accuracy
are given in degrees, where North is 0, East is 90, and so on; the components
of the magnetic vector are given in microteslas. The components are oriented
with respect to the device along the same axes as the accelerometer
readouts.
HP-41 Time Module Emulation
I have implemented the following HP-41 Time Module functions: ADATE ATIME ATIME24 CLK12 CLK24 DATE DATE+ DDAYS DMY DOW MDY TIME
I have not implemented these HP-41 Time Module functions:
Live Clock Display: CLKT CLKTD CLOCK
Clock Control: CORRECT RCLAF SETAF SETDATE SETIME T+X
Stopwatch: RCLSW RUNSW SETSW STOPSW SW
Alarms: ALMCAT ALMNOW XYZALM
These functions are documented in detail in the HP-82182A Time Module Owner's Manual and the HP-41CX Owner's Manual, both of which can be viewed on-line here, here, and here, or you can get them in PDF on CD-ROM or DVD-ROM here.
Note: the date functions handle dates between October 15, 1582, and
September 10, 4320. The former is the first day of the Gregorian
Calendar, and the latter is 999,999 days later.
The format in which the date functions accept and return dates is
MM.DDYYYY when in MDY mode, and DD.MMYYYY when in DMY mode.
ADATE Appends the contents of the X register to the ALPHA register, formatted as a date value: in DMY mode, DD.MMYYYY is displayed as DD.MM.YYYY, and in MDY mode, MM.DDYYYY is displayed as MM/DD/YYYY. If the number of digits of the display mode is 4 or less, the century part is omitted; if it is 2 or less, the entire year part is omitted; and if it is 0, the months or days part is omitted (in DMY or MDY mode, respectively).
ATIME Appends the contents of the X register to the ALPHA register,
formatted as a time value: HH.MMSSss is displayed as HH:MM:SS.ss. In CLK12 mode,
times with HH between -23 and 23 are displayed in 12-hour format: -23 to -13 as
-HH-12 PM; -12 to -1 as -HH PM; 0 as 12 AM; 1 to 11 as HH AM; 12 as 12 PM;
13 to 23 as HH-12 PM. When |HH| ≥ 24, the sign is ignored, and HH is shown
as is, with no AM or PM appended. In CLK24 mode, HH between -1 and -11 are
displayed as -HH+12; all other values are shown as |HH|. No AM or PM are
displayed.
If the number of digits of the display mode is 4 or less, the centiseconds part
is omitted; if it is 2 or less, the seconds part is omitted; and if it is 0,
the minutes part is omitted.
ATIME24 Like ATIME (see above), except it always formats the time in 24-hour format, regardless of the CLK12/CLK24 setting.
CLK12 Display the time in 12-hour format with AM/PM.
CLK24 Display the time in 24-hour format.
DATE Returns the current date to the X register. In MDY mode, the date is returned as MM.DDYYYY, and in DMY mode, it is returned as DD.MMYYYY. In addition, when executed from the keyboard, this also displays the date formatted as "MM/DD/YYYY DOW" or "DD.MM.YYYY DOW", respectively.
DATE+ Takes a date from the Y register, and adds a number of days from the X register.
DDAYS Calculates the number of days between the date in the Y register and the date in the X register. If the date in the Y register is earlier, then the result will be positive.
DMY Display, return, and accept dates in day/month/year format.
DOW Calculates the day of the week for the date in the X register. Returns a number from 0 to 6, where 0 is Sunday, 1 is Monday, and so on. When this function is executed from the keyboard, the day is also displayed in a human-friendly format, i.e. MON for Monday, TUE for Tuesday, etc.
MDY Display, return, and accept dates in month/day/year format.
TIME Returns the current time in the X register. The time is returned in HH.MMSSss format, with HH from 0 to 23, regardless of the CLK12/CLK24 setting. In addition, when executed from the keyboard, it displays the time in "HH:MM:SS AM" or "HH:MM:SS" format, when the display format is CLK12 or CLK24, respectively.
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