real time clock

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I'm using a 16F84A so there is no question of internal oscillator. I tried several other things besides LCDOUT. Even FOR and WHILE statements take a lot o ftime to execute . . . I used a external 32.768Khz oscillator. Just to verify that the F84 was running at 32.768Khz, i tried a clock code on it and it does keep accurate time . . . down to a second a day.

If you're running 32.768khz, everything is going to take a lot longer to execute.
The clock is 32.768khz, but the PIC is only executing instructions at 8.192khz (Fosc/4), and if you're code has a lot of call's, gosub's, returns, anything that takes the code to 'somewhere else', it'll run half that fast again (4.096khz, Fosc/4 + one extra instruction for each 'somewhere else').

So, what are you asking? What's the point?