On Tue 2017-06-20 12:03:48, Alexandre Belloni wrote: > On 20/06/2017 at 11:35:08 +0200, Benjamin Gaignard wrote: > > rtc_time_to_tm() and rtc_tm_to_time() are deprecated because they > > rely on 32bits variables and that will make rtc break in y2038/2016. > > Please don't, because this hide the fact that the hardware will not > handle dates in y2038 anyway and as pointed by Russell a few month ago, > rtc_time_to_tm will be able to catch it but the 64 bit version will > silently ignore it.
Reference? Because rtc on PCs stores date in binary coded decimal, so
it is likely to break in 2100, not 2038...
Pavel
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