Re: [PATCHv3] RTC: RK808: Compensate for Rockchip calendar deviation on November 31st

[Doug Anderson]

Julius,

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Julius Werner <jwerner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In A.D. 1582 Pope Gregory XIII found that the existing Julian calendar
> insufficiently represented reality, and changed the rules about
> calculating leap years to account for this. Similarly, in A.D. 2013
> Rockchip hardware engineers found that the new Gregorian calendar still
> contained flaws, and that the month of November should be counted up to
> 31 days instead. Unfortunately it takes a long time for calendar changes
> to gain widespread adoption, and just like more than 300 years went by
> before the last Protestant nation implemented Greg's proposal, we will
> have to wait a while until all religions and operating system kernels
> acknowledge the inherent advantages of the Rockchip system. Until then
> we need to translate dates read from (and written to) Rockchip hardware
> back to the Gregorian format.
>
> This patch works by defining Jan 1st, 2016 as the arbitrary anchor date
> on which Rockchip and Gregorian calendars are in sync. From that we can
> translate arbitrary later dates back and forth by counting the number
> of November/December transitons since the anchor date to determine the
> offset between the calendars. We choose this method (rather than trying
> to regularly "correct" the date stored in hardware) since it's the only
> way to ensure perfect time-keeping even if the system may be shut down
> for an unknown number of years. The drawback is that other software
> reading the same hardware (e.g. mainboard firmware) must use the same
> translation convention (including the same anchor date) to be able to
> read and write correct timestamps from/to the RTC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/rtc/rtc-rk808.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

I'm not terribly worried about the date in the past problem that you
brought up in your own response.  So:

Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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