From 57e6319dd61d5ca10fe8dd57bcce8c0e2c480799 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Feng Tang Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:23:39 +0000 Subject: vrtc: change its year offset from 1960 to 1972 Real world year equals the value in vrtc YEAR register plus an offset. We used 1960 as the offset to make leap year consistent, but for a device's first use, its YEAR register is 0 and the system year will be parsed as 1960 which is not a valid UNIX time and will cause many applications to fail mysteriously. So we use 1972 instead to fix this issue. Updated patch which adds a sanity check suggested by Mathias This isn't a change in behaviour for systems, because 1972 is the one we actually use. It's the old version in upstream which is out of sync with all devices. Signed-off-by: Feng Tang Signed-off-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86/platform/mrst/vrtc.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch') diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/mrst/vrtc.c b/arch/x86/platform/mrst/vrtc.c index a8ac6f1eb66d..225bd0f0f675 100644 --- a/arch/x86/platform/mrst/vrtc.c +++ b/arch/x86/platform/mrst/vrtc.c @@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ unsigned long vrtc_get_time(void) spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtc_lock, flags); - /* vRTC YEAR reg contains the offset to 1960 */ - year += 1960; + /* vRTC YEAR reg contains the offset to 1972 */ + year += 1972; printk(KERN_INFO "vRTC: sec: %d min: %d hour: %d day: %d " "mon: %d year: %d\n", sec, min, hour, mday, mon, year); -- cgit v1.2.3