I don't know why my searches didn't produce this hit. This may well do the trick. Many thanks. These days it's easy to translate text using Google - so that isn't a problem.
Thanks again...
@shaf - the clockport adapter is another game altogether, but thanks for the thought...
Wait wait wait, I may have an RTC here for A1000 that I think works, but not totally sure, hold on...
Uh, we are talking about a Real Time Clock, yeah ?