linux-kernel - [PATCH 01/10] rtc: add a timestamp for year 0

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Message-Id: <20191007134724.15505-1-alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Date:   Mon,  7 Oct 2019 15:47:15 +0200
From:   Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
To:     linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
Subject: [PATCH 01/10] rtc: add a timestamp for year 0

A few RTCs handle dates from year 0 to year 9999. Add a timestamp even if
years before 1970 will probably never be used.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
---
 include/linux/rtc.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/rtc.h b/include/linux/rtc.h
index df666cf29ef1..2680f9b2b119 100644
--- a/include/linux/rtc.h
+++ b/include/linux/rtc.h
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ struct rtc_device {
 #define to_rtc_device(d) container_of(d, struct rtc_device, dev)
 
 /* useful timestamps */
+#define RTC_TIMESTAMP_BEGIN_0000	-62167219200ULL /* 0000-01-01 00:00:00 */
 #define RTC_TIMESTAMP_BEGIN_1900	-2208988800LL /* 1900-01-01 00:00:00 */
 #define RTC_TIMESTAMP_BEGIN_2000	946684800LL /* 2000-01-01 00:00:00 */
 #define RTC_TIMESTAMP_END_2063		2966371199LL /* 2063-12-31 23:59:59 */
-- 
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