On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:39:07AM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote: > On 21/06/2017 at 09:51:52 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > If someone uses different threshold, well, there will be > > confusion. But only for users that have their rtc set to the past, > > which is quite unusual. > > > > Or not, having an RTC set in the past is actually quite common. I'd find > it weird to have a new device boot and be set to a date in the future.
... and that basically means you can't use hardware that stores RTC time as a 32-bit number of seconds past 2106. > Also note that the threshold or offset thing may seem like a good idea > but fails with many RTCs because of how they handle leap years. Not for the case being discussed. A 32-bit counter of seconds knows nothing about leap years - all that is handled by the conversion functions. -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to "rtc-linux". Membership options at http://groups.google.com/group/rtc-linux . Please read http://groups.google.com/group/rtc-linux/web/checklist before submitting a driver. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rtc-linux" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
