First post, so go easy on me. I'm hoping an Assembly guru can help me out with my assignment. For some reason, I'm losing my Century when I try to print out date and time in Assembly. Wondering if someone could take a peek and help me out. Also, although I'm pretty certain I've got the display code correct, I can't figure out why it won't print out in my compiled version. Thank you in advance for the help :)

[BITS 16]               ;Set code generation to 16 bit mode
%include 'exebin.mac'   ;include file to simulate .com header

EXE_Begin               ;assembler directive to indicate executable begin

[ORG 100H]		;set addressing to begin at 100H

start:
  call cls	;call routine to clear screen
  call dspmsg	;call routine to display message
  call date
  call cvtmo
  call cvtday
  call cvtcent
  call cvtyear
  call dspdate
  call time
  call cvthrs
  call cvtmin
  call cvtsec
  call dsptime
  int 20h ;halt operation (VERY IMPORTANT!!!)

cls:			 
  mov ah,06h	;function 06h (Scroll Screen)
  mov al,0	;scroll all lines
  mov bh,1FH	;Attribute (bright white on blue)
  mov ch,0	;Upper left row is zero
  mov cl,0	;Upper left column is zero
  mov dh,24	;Lower left row is 24
  mov dl,79	;Lower left column is 79
  int 10H   ;BIOS Interrupt 10h (video services)
  ret


dspmsg: 
  mov ah,13h	;function 13h (Display String)
  mov al,0	;Write mode is zero
  mov bh,0	;Use video page of zero
  mov bl,00h	;Attribute (bright white on bright blue)
  mov cx,8	;Character string is 25 long
  mov dh,3	;position on row 3
  mov dl,0	;and column 28
  push ds		;put ds register on stack
  pop es		;pop it into es register
  lea bp,[msg]	;load the offset address of string into BP
  int 10H
  ret
 	
msg: db 'My name :D'

date:
;Get date from the system
mov ah,04h ;function 04h (get RTC date)
int 1Ah ;BIOS Interrupt 1Ah (Read Real Time Clock)
ret

;CH - Century
;CL - Year
;DH - Month
;DL - Day

cvtmo:
;Converts the system date from BCD to ASCII
mov bh,dh ;copy contents of month (dh) to bh
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
add bh,30h ;add 30h to convert to ascii
mov [dtfld],bh
mov bh,dh
and bh,0fh
add bh,30h
mov [dtfld + 1],bh
ret

cvtday:
mov bh,dl ;copy contents of day (dl) to bh
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
add bh,30h ;add 30h to convert to ascii
mov [dtfld],bh
mov bh,dl
and bh,0fh
add bh,30h
mov [dtfld +4],bh
ret

cvtcent:
mov bh,ch ;copy contents of century (ch) to bh
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
add bh,30h ;add 30h to convert to ascii
mov [dtfld],bh
mov bh,ch
and bh,0fh
add bh,30h
mov [dtfld + 7],bh
ret

cvtyear:
mov bh,cl ;copy contents of year (cl) to bh
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
add bh,30h ;add 30h to convert to ascii
mov [dtfld],bh
mov bh,cl
and bh,0fh
add bh,30h
mov [dtfld + 9],bh
ret

dtfld: db '00/00/0000'

dspdate:
;Display the system date
mov ah,13h ;function 13h (Display String)
mov al,0 ;Write mode is zero
mov bh,0 ;Use video page of zero
mov bl,0Fh ;Attribute
mov cx,10 ;Character string is 10 long
mov dh,5 ;position on row 4
mov dl,0 ;and column 28
push ds ;put ds register on stack
pop es ;pop it into es register
lea bp,[dtfld] ;load the offset address of string into BP
int 10H
ret

time:
;Get time from the system
mov ah,02h
int 1Ah
ret

;CH - Hours
;CL - Minutes
;DH - Seconds

cvthrs:
;Converts the system time from BCD to ASCII
mov bh,ch ;copy contents of hours (ch) to bh
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
add bh,30h ;add 30h to convert to ascii
mov [tmfld],bh
mov bh,ch
and bh,0fh
add bh,30h
mov [tmfld + 1],bh
ret

cvtmin:
mov bh,cl ;copy contents of minutes (cl) to bh
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
add bh,30h ;add 30h to convert to ascii
mov [tmfld],bh
mov bh,cl
and bh,0fh
add bh,30h
mov [tmfld + 4],bh
ret

cvtsec:
mov bh,dh ;copy contents of seconds (dh) to bh
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
shr bh,1
add bh,30h ;add 30h to convert to ascii
mov [tmfld],bh
mov bh,dh
and bh,0fh
add bh,30h
mov [tmfld + 7],bh
ret

tmfld: db '00:00:00'

dsptime:
;Display the system time
mov ah,13h ;function 13h (Display String)
mov al,0 ;Write mode is zero
mov bh,0 ;Use video page of zero
mov bl,0Fh ;Attribute
mov cx,8 ;Character string is 8 long
mov dh,5 ;position on row 5
mov dl,0 ;and column 28
push ds ;put ds register on stack
pop es ;pop it into es register
lea bp,[tmfld] ;load the offset address of string into BP
int 10H
ret

int 20H
EXE_End

Hi I'am a new member of this forum. I came across your code when I was looking for a project. Our project was to make OS Shell Commands using NASM compiler. Then, my partner and I tried to incorporate your work to our "baby OS". I am happy to say that it worked. Up to the point where it outputted the Century where you were having trouble with.

In line 99, we changed [dtfld] to [dtfld + 6]. I hope this helps. And thanks for the idea for our OS command.

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