On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 4:04 PM Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:

The real-time clock on m68k (and powerpc) mac systems uses an unsigned
32-bit value starting in 1904, which overflows in 2040, about two years
later than everyone else, but this gets wrapped around in the Linux
code in 2038 already because of the deprecated usage of time_t and/or
long in the conversion.

Getting rid of the deprecated interfaces makes it work until 2040 as
documented, and it could be easily extended by reinterpreting
the resulting time64_t as a positive number. For the moment, I'm
adding a WARN_ON() that triggers if we encounter a time before 1970
or after 2040 (the two are indistinguishable).

This brings it in line with the corresponding code that we have on
powerpc macintosh.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Thanks for your patch!

Applied and queued for v4.19, with the WARN_ON() dropped.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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