On 21/03/2019 11:22:26+0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 12:30 PM Alexandre Belloni
> <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The SH RTC is a BCD RTC with some version having 4 digits for the year.
> >
> > The range for the RTCs with only 2 digits for the year was unfortunately
> > shifted to handle 1999 to 2098.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> > --- a/include/linux/rtc.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/rtc.h
> > @@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ struct rtc_device {
> > #define RTC_TIMESTAMP_BEGIN_1900 -2208989361LL /* 1900-01-01 00:00:00 */
>
> mktime64(1900, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0) = -2208988800 ??
>
> Is this due to leap seconds, and mktime64() is valid for 1970 and later only?
>
That's a bug, it seems I didn't use the correct timezone when doing the
calculation. Thanks for spotting that, you can send a patch to correct
it or I can do it.
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Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
