Provide support to use whole 32-bit range (unsigned int) to hold time since UNIX epoch.
The suppoerted time range is now from the 1st of January 1970 at 00:00:00 to the 7th of February 2106 at 06:28:15.
Add support for two types of RTC devices:
- RTCs which handles all leap years in the mentioned year range correctly. Leap year is determined by checking if the year counter value is divisible by 400, 100, and 4.
- RTCs which handles leap years correctly up to 2100. The RTC does a simple bit comparison to see if the two lowest order bits of the year counter are zero. In this case 2100 year will be considered incorrectly as a leap year, so the last valid point in time will be 28.02.2100 23:59:59 and next day will be 29.02.2100 (invalid). So after 28.02.2100 the day counter will be off by a day.
The use of mktime was causing a fault when called in interrupt handler because on GCC it lock the mutex protecting the environment, To overcome this issue, this patch add dedicated routine to convert a time_t into a tm and vice versa.
In the process mktime has been optimized and is now an order of magnitude faster than the routines present in the C library.
Martin Kojtal
Przemyslaw Stekiel
Deepika
Vincent Coubard