Tutorial said we can display text on LCD like this...

MOV A,#'H'
LCALL WRITE_TEXT

WRITE_TEXT:
SETB RS
MOV DATA,A
SETB EN
CLR EN
LCALL WAIT_LCD
RET

But if we've the HOURS, MINUTES, SECONDS variable which contains 8-bits binary value. Writing this exact 8 bits to LCD will show the number(decimal) on LCD or not? Will it automatically convert the 8bit binary to decimal?

Please spare me. At the moment I can't test this with hardware myself and my simulator is still having problem initializing the LCD. I ask this because I'm just curious.

Thank you.