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From: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
To: Brad Parker <brad@parker.boston.ma.us>
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Subject: Re: to_tm() in kernel/time.c?
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:58:06PM -0500, Brad Parker wrote:
> 
> Can anyone tell me if to_tm() in kernel/time.c returns months as 0-11?
> (in the current mips tree, that is)
> 

It is 0-11.  See the code

        tm->tm_mon = i - 1;             /* tm_mon starts from 0 to 11 */

> I'm curious if the to_tm() in the ppc tree is the same as the to_tm()
> in the mips tree.  In the ppc tree it returns 1-12.
>

The routine was copied from PPC.  I think tm_mon is set to 0-11 so as to match
struct rtc_time usage when it is exported to userland.

I will check with PPC folks to see why they changed it.

Jun