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>