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-rw-r--r--drivers/rtc/Kconfig4
-rw-r--r--drivers/rtc/hctosys.c4
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
index cbde770eb121..7958635f12cc 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
@@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ config RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE
help
The RTC device that will be used to (re)initialize the system
clock, usually rtc0. Initialization is done when the system
- starts up, and when it resumes from a low power state.
+ starts up, and when it resumes from a low power state. This
+ device should record time in UTC, since the kernel won't do
+ timezone correction.
The driver for this RTC device must be loaded before late_initcall
functions run, so it must usually be statically linked.
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/hctosys.c b/drivers/rtc/hctosys.c
index 178527252c6a..33c0e98243ee 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/hctosys.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/hctosys.c
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ static int __init rtc_hctosys(void)
do_settimeofday(&tv);
dev_info(rtc->dev.parent,
- "setting the system clock to "
- "%d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d (%u)\n",
+ "setting system clock to "
+ "%d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d UTC (%u)\n",
tm.tm_year + 1900, tm.tm_mon + 1, tm.tm_mday,
tm.tm_hour, tm.tm_min, tm.tm_sec,
(unsigned int) tv.tv_sec);