Hi Wolfgang, On 12 November 2014 01:12, Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de> wrote: > 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.
OK I think going with a 2010 date makes more sense, so I'll drop the build date patch. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
