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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, 5 Oct 2011 07:50:23 +0000 (18:50 +1100)
commite268410769aded1344cfd233ab5118bbcab39cd2
tree8a71e3bc9e736305878823757f956a8e0e8cbd9a
parentcf3fbc2324e6c3133e5457950d669d8036665c29
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