I agree. However: without a hardware clock in the Mk 1, the only other clock setting method is via and RDS radio station the way it is done now. This means that the clock dies when you power cycle. The next time that you power up, the clock is meaningless until you hit another RDS station with time info.

There is a minor point that the build size is reduced for the Mk1, which means the in-memory executable image is reduced in size. Since the Mk1 does not have as much RAM as the Mk2/2A then this helps you cache more music.

I agree though, I want a clock visual - the reason being that I intend to have an external battery-backed clock on an expansion board over serial, and write a clock driver for it for the player unit. Without the clock visuals built into the executable, this effort is wasted.

One of the few remaining Mk1 owners... #00015