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vrtc: change its year offset from 1960 to 1972
authorFeng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:42:25 +0000 (11:42 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:31:49 +0000 (17:31 +1100)
commit523e963065ecab19b630415841d8170e952fc4d3
treea538da3b39779fd2b7e46128599c9fdf9e716e67
parentefbe7bb3d65da9f9d956e8e245837f3cf3850a16
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 for original developepment 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.  Devices use 1972 instead to
fix this issue.

Updated patch which adds a sanity check suggested by Mathias

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/platform/mrst/vrtc.c
drivers/rtc/rtc-mrst.c