Remote control apparatus and electronic appliance controllable by same

A remote control apparatus to remotely control a plurality of electronic appliances each of which has a timepiece circuit, comprising:

• a first acceptor for accepting a selection of a desired electronic appliance among said plurality of electronic appliances;
• a second acceptor for accepting a selection of a reset mode to perform a reset operation of the timepiece circuit;
• an establisher for establishing a protocol with said desired electronic appliance in response to the selection of the reset mode;
• a reset command transmitter for transmitting a reset command to said desired electronic appliance in response to the reset operation so as to request a reset of the timepiece circuit included in said desired electronic appliance;
• and
• a maintaining command transmitter for repeatedly transmitting a maintaining command to said desired electronic appliance so as to request a maintaining of the protocol for a time period from the establishing of the protocol to the reset operation.