Dear Simon, In message <1415751501-23407-11-git-send-email-...@chromium.org> you wrote: > If the RTC needs to be cleared, write the U-Boot build date to it. In any > case make sure the settings are correct.
Is this really a good idea? Why writing the build date? It is as wrong as any other arbitrarily chose point of time, and when each device comes up with a different (incorrect) time this could be pretty much confusing. If you need a sane time for initialization, would it not make more sense to chose a fixed date? If you don't want to use the epoch (say, to avoid y2038 issues), you could use 2010-01-01 00:00 or similar instead. If I see the clock comes up at such a date I will notice that this is an uninitialized time. It it comes up with something as "Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:17:58" I will assume this is a real time, and wonder what's gone wrong that i's in the past. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Anything that is worth doing at all is worth doing well. -- Philip Earl of Chesterfield _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot