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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Bug: When setting hardware clock on linux guest,
 hwclock shows crazy date (in the year 2043)
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To: QEMU devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

Very easy to reproduce:

1) Build the latest qemu.git (we've captured this on internal automated 
testing, verified manually), the commit for reference is:

14:07:02 INFO | git commit ID is 
6f8fd2530e9a530f237240daf1c981fa5df7f978 (tag v1.2.0-461-g6f8fd25)

2) Install a linux guest in it (caught with RHEL 6.2, verified with 
Fedora 17)

3) In the linux guest, set the hardware clock with hwclock:

/sbin/hwclock --set --date "2/2/80 03:04:00"

4) Verify if hardware clock was set back to the eighties:

LC_ALL=C /sbin/hwclock

5) Observe amazed that hwclock reports a date in the year 2043:

14:09:34 INFO | ('hwclock', 'FAIL', 2, "Failed to set hwclock back to 
the eighties. Output of hwclock is 'Sun Dec 27 20:35:46 2043 -0.489664 
seconds'")