/* * hwclock.c * * clock.c was written by Charles Hedrick, hedrick@cs.rutgers.edu, Apr 1992 * Modified for clock adjustments - Rob Hooft , Nov 1992 * Improvements by Harald Koenig * and Alan Modra . * * Major rewrite by Bryan Henderson , 96.09.19. * The new program is called hwclock. New features: * * - You can set the hardware clock without also modifying the system * clock. * - You can read and set the clock with finer than 1 second precision. * - When you set the clock, hwclock automatically refigures the drift * rate, based on how far off the clock was before you set it. * * Reshuffled things, added sparc code, and re-added alpha stuff * by David Mosberger * and Jay Estabrook * and Martin Ostermann , aeb@cwi.nl, 990212. * * Fix for Award 2094 bug, Dave Coffin (dcoffin@shore.net) 11/12/98 * Change of local time handling, Stefan Ring * Change of adjtime handling, James P. Rutledge . * * Distributed under GPL */ /* * Explanation of `adjusting' (Rob Hooft): * * The problem with my machine is that its CMOS clock is 10 seconds * per day slow. With this version of clock.c, and my '/etc/rc.local' * reading '/etc/clock -au' instead of '/etc/clock -u -s', this error * is automatically corrected at every boot. * * To do this job, the program reads and writes the file '/etc/adjtime' * to determine the correction, and to save its data. In this file are * three numbers: * * 1) the correction in seconds per day. (So if your clock runs 5 * seconds per day fast, the first number should read -5.0) * 2) the number of seconds since 1/1/1970 the last time the program * was used * 3) the remaining part of a second which was leftover after the last * adjustment * * Installation and use of this program: * * a) create a file '/etc/adjtime' containing as the first and only * line: '0.0 0 0.0' * b) run 'clock -au' or 'clock -a', depending on whether your cmos is * in universal or local time. This updates the second number. * c) set your system time using the 'date' command. * d) update your cmos time using 'clock -wu' or 'clock -w' * e) replace the first number in /etc/adjtime by your correction. * f) put the command 'clock -au' or 'clock -a' in your '/etc/rc.local' */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include "c.h" #include "clock.h" #include "nls.h" #include "pathnames.h" #ifdef HAVE_LIBAUDIT #include static int hwaudit_fd = -1; static int hwaudit_on; #endif /* The struct that holds our hardware access routines */ struct clock_ops *ur; #define FLOOR(arg) ((arg >= 0 ? (int) arg : ((int) arg) - 1)); const char *adj_file_name = NULL; struct adjtime { /* * This is information we keep in the adjtime file that tells us how * to do drift corrections. Elements are all straight from the * adjtime file, so see documentation of that file for details. * Exception is , which is an indication that what's in this * structure is not what's in the disk file (because it has been * updated since read from the disk file). */ bool dirty; /* line 1 */ double drift_factor; time_t last_adj_time; double not_adjusted; /* line 2 */ time_t last_calib_time; /* * The most recent time that we set the clock from an external * authority (as opposed to just doing a drift adjustment) */ /* line 3 */ enum a_local_utc { LOCAL, UTC, UNKNOWN } local_utc; /* * To which time zone, local or UTC, we most recently set the * hardware clock. */ }; /* * We are running in debug mode, wherein we put a lot of information about * what we're doing to standard output. */ bool debug; /* Workaround for Award 4.50g BIOS bug: keep the year in a file. */ bool badyear; /* User-specified epoch, used when rtc fails to return epoch. */ int epoch_option = -1; /* * Almost all Award BIOS's made between 04/26/94 and 05/31/95 have a nasty * bug limiting the RTC year byte to the range 94-99. Any year between 2000 * and 2093 gets changed to 2094, every time you start the system. * * With the --badyear option, we write the date to file and hope that the * file is updated at least once a year. I recommend putting this command * "hwclock --badyear" in the monthly crontab, just to be safe. * * -- Dave Coffin 11/12/98 */ static void write_date_to_file(struct tm *tm) { FILE *fp; if ((fp = fopen(_PATH_LASTDATE, "w"))) { fprintf(fp, "%02d.%02d.%04d\n", tm->tm_mday, tm->tm_mon + 1, tm->tm_year + 1900); fclose(fp); } else warn(_("cannot write %s"), _PATH_LASTDATE); } static void read_date_from_file(struct tm *tm) { int last_mday, last_mon, last_year; FILE *fp; if ((fp = fopen(_PATH_LASTDATE, "r"))) { if (fscanf(fp, "%d.%d.%d\n", &last_mday, &last_mon, &last_year) == 3) { tm->tm_year = last_year - 1900; if ((tm->tm_mon << 5) + tm->tm_mday < ((last_mon - 1) << 5) + last_mday) tm->tm_year++; } fclose(fp); } write_date_to_file(tm); } /* * The difference in seconds between two times in "timeval" format. */ double time_diff(struct timeval subtrahend, struct timeval subtractor) { return (subtrahend.tv_sec - subtractor.tv_sec) + (subtrahend.tv_usec - subtractor.tv_usec) / 1E6; } /* * The time, in "timeval" format, which is seconds after the * time . Of course, may be negative. */ static struct timeval time_inc(struct timeval addend, double increment) { struct timeval newtime; newtime.tv_sec = addend.tv_sec + (int)increment; newtime.tv_usec = addend.tv_usec + (increment - (int)increment) * 1E6; /* * Now adjust it so that the microsecond value is between 0 and 1 * million. */ if (newtime.tv_usec < 0) { newtime.tv_usec += 1E6; newtime.tv_sec -= 1; } else if (newtime.tv_usec >= 1E6) { newtime.tv_usec -= 1E6; newtime.tv_sec += 1; } return newtime; } static bool hw_clock_is_utc(const bool utc, const bool local_opt, const struct adjtime adjtime) { bool ret; if (utc) ret = TRUE; /* --utc explicitly given on command line */ else if (local_opt) ret = FALSE; /* --localtime explicitly given */ else /* get info from adjtime file - default is UTC */ ret = (adjtime.local_utc != LOCAL); if (debug) printf(_("Assuming hardware clock is kept in %s time.\n"), ret ? _("UTC") : _("local")); return ret; } /* * Read the adjustment parameters out of the /etc/adjtime file. * * Return them as the adjtime structure <*adjtime_p>. If there is no * /etc/adjtime file, return defaults. If values are missing from the file, * return defaults for them. * * return value 0 if all OK, !=0 otherwise. */ static int read_adjtime(struct adjtime *adjtime_p) { FILE *adjfile; int rc; /* local return code */ struct stat statbuf; /* We don't even use the contents of this. */ char line1[81]; /* String: first line of adjtime file */ char line2[81]; /* String: second line of adjtime file */ char line3[81]; /* String: third line of adjtime file */ long timeval; rc = stat(adj_file_name, &statbuf); if (rc < 0 && errno == ENOENT) { /* He doesn't have a adjtime file, so we'll use defaults. */ adjtime_p->drift_factor = 0; adjtime_p->last_adj_time = 0; adjtime_p->not_adjusted = 0; adjtime_p->last_calib_time = 0; adjtime_p->local_utc = UNKNOWN; adjtime_p->dirty = FALSE; /* don't create a zero adjfile */ return 0; } adjfile = fopen(adj_file_name, "r"); /* open file for reading */ if (adjfile == NULL) { warn("cannot open file %s", adj_file_name); return EX_OSFILE; } if (!fgets(line1, sizeof(line1), adjfile)) line1[0] = '\0'; /* In case fgets fails */ if (!fgets(line2, sizeof(line2), adjfile)) line2[0] = '\0'; /* In case fgets fails */ if (!fgets(line3, sizeof(line3), adjfile)) line3[0] = '\0'; /* In case fgets fails */ fclose(adjfile); /* Set defaults in case values are missing from file */ adjtime_p->drift_factor = 0; adjtime_p->last_adj_time = 0; adjtime_p->not_adjusted = 0; adjtime_p->last_calib_time = 0; timeval = 0; sscanf(line1, "%lf %ld %lf", &adjtime_p->drift_factor, &timeval, &adjtime_p->not_adjusted); adjtime_p->last_adj_time = timeval; sscanf(line2, "%ld", &timeval); adjtime_p->last_calib_time = timeval; if (!strcmp(line3, "UTC\n")) { adjtime_p->local_utc = UTC; } else if (!strcmp(line3, "LOCAL\n")) { adjtime_p->local_utc = LOCAL; } else { adjtime_p->local_utc = UNKNOWN; if (line3[0]) { warnx(_("Warning: unrecognized third line in adjtime file\n" "(Expected: `UTC' or `LOCAL' or nothing.)")); } } adjtime_p->dirty = FALSE; if (debug) { printf(_ ("Last drift adjustment done at %ld seconds after 1969\n"), (long)adjtime_p->last_adj_time); printf(_("Last calibration done at %ld seconds after 1969\n"), (long)adjtime_p->last_calib_time); printf(_("Hardware clock is on %s time\n"), (adjtime_p->local_utc == LOCAL) ? _("local") : (adjtime_p->local_utc == UTC) ? _("UTC") : _("unknown")); } return 0; } /* * Wait until the falling edge of the Hardware Clock's update flag so that * any time that is read from the clock immediately after we return will be * exact. * * The clock only has 1 second precision, so it gives the exact time only * once per second, right on the falling edge of the update flag. * * We wait (up to one second) either blocked waiting for an rtc device or in * a CPU spin loop. The former is probably not very accurate. * * Return 0 if it worked, nonzero if it didn't. */ static int synchronize_to_clock_tick(void) { int rc; if (debug) printf(_("Waiting for clock tick...\n")); rc = ur->synchronize_to_clock_tick(); if (debug) { if (rc) printf(_("...synchronization failed\n")); else printf(_("...got clock tick\n")); } return rc; } /* * Convert a time in broken down format (hours, minutes, etc.) into standard * unix time (seconds into epoch). Return it as *systime_p. * * The broken down time is argument . This broken down time is either * in local time zone or UTC, depending on value of logical argument * "universal". True means it is in UTC. * * If the argument contains values that do not constitute a valid time, and * mktime() recognizes this, return *valid_p == false and *systime_p * undefined. However, mktime() sometimes goes ahead and computes a * fictional time "as if" the input values were valid, e.g. if they indicate * the 31st day of April, mktime() may compute the time of May 1. In such a * case, we return the same fictional value mktime() does as *systime_p and * return *valid_p == true. */ static void mktime_tz(struct tm tm, const bool universal, bool * valid_p, time_t * systime_p) { time_t mktime_result; /* The value returned by our mktime() call */ char *zone; /* Local time zone name */ /* * We use the C library function mktime(), but since it only works * on local time zone input, we may have to fake it out by * temporarily changing the local time zone to UTC. */ zone = getenv("TZ"); /* remember original time zone */ if (universal) { /* Set timezone to UTC */ setenv("TZ", "", TRUE); /* * Note: tzset() gets called implicitly by the time code, * but only the first time. When changing the environment * variable, better call tzset() explicitly. */ tzset(); } mktime_result = mktime(&tm); if (mktime_result == -1) { /* * This apparently (not specified in mktime() documentation) * means the 'tm' structure does not contain valid values * (however, not containing valid values does _not_ imply * mktime() returns -1). */ *valid_p = FALSE; *systime_p = 0; if (debug) printf(_("Invalid values in hardware clock: " "%4d/%.2d/%.2d %.2d:%.2d:%.2d\n"), tm.tm_year + 1900, tm.tm_mon + 1, tm.tm_mday, tm.tm_hour, tm.tm_min, tm.tm_sec); } else { *valid_p = TRUE; *systime_p = mktime_result; if (debug) printf(_ ("Hw clock time : %4d/%.2d/%.2d %.2d:%.2d:%.2d = " "%ld seconds since 1969\n"), tm.tm_year + 1900, tm.tm_mon + 1, tm.tm_mday, tm.tm_hour, tm.tm_min, tm.tm_sec, (long)*systime_p); } /* now put back the original zone. */ if (zone) setenv("TZ", zone, TRUE); else unsetenv("TZ"); tzset(); } /* * Read the hardware clock and return the current time via argument. * * Use the method indicated by argument to access the hardware * clock. */ static int read_hardware_clock(const bool universal, bool * valid_p, time_t * systime_p) { struct tm tm; int err; err = ur->read_hardware_clock(&tm); if (err) return err; if (badyear) read_date_from_file(&tm); if (debug) printf(_ ("Time read from Hardware Clock: %4d/%.2d/%.2d %02d:%02d:%02d\n"), tm.tm_year + 1900, tm.tm_mon + 1, tm.tm_mday, tm.tm_hour, tm.tm_min, tm.tm_sec); mktime_tz(tm, universal, valid_p, systime_p); return 0; } /* * Set the Hardware Clock to the time , in local time zone or UTC, * according to . */ static void set_hardware_clock(const time_t newtime, const bool universal, const bool testing) { struct tm new_broken_time; /* * Time to which we will set Hardware Clock, in broken down format, * in the time zone of caller's choice */ if (universal) new_broken_time = *gmtime(&newtime); else new_broken_time = *localtime(&newtime); if (debug) printf(_("Setting Hardware Clock to %.2d:%.2d:%.2d " "= %ld seconds since 1969\n"), new_broken_time.tm_hour, new_broken_time.tm_min, new_broken_time.tm_sec, (long)newtime); if (testing) printf(_("Clock not changed - testing only.\n")); else { if (badyear) { /* * Write the real year to a file, then write a fake * year between 1995 and 1998 to the RTC. This way, * Award BIOS boots on 29 Feb 2000 thinking that * it's 29 Feb 1996. */ write_date_to_file(&new_broken_time); new_broken_time.tm_year = 95 + ((new_broken_time.tm_year + 1) & 3); } ur->set_hardware_clock(&new_broken_time); } } /* * Set the Hardware Clock to the time "sethwtime", in local time zone or * UTC, according to "universal". * * Wait for a fraction of a second so that "sethwtime" is the value of the * Hardware Clock as of system time "refsystime", which is in the past. For * example, if "sethwtime" is 14:03:05 and "refsystime" is 12:10:04.5 and * the current system time is 12:10:06.0: Wait .5 seconds (to make exactly 2 * seconds since "refsystime") and then set the Hardware Clock to 14:03:07, * thus getting a precise and retroactive setting of the clock. * * (Don't be confused by the fact that the system clock and the Hardware * Clock differ by two hours in the above example. That's just to remind you * that there are two independent time scales here). * * This function ought to be able to accept set times as fractional times. * Idea for future enhancement. */ static void set_hardware_clock_exact(const time_t sethwtime, const struct timeval refsystime, const bool universal, const bool testing) { time_t newhwtime; struct timeval beginsystime, nowsystime; double tdiff; int time_resync = 1; /* * Now delay some more until Hardware Clock time newhwtime arrives. * The 0.5 s is because the Hardware Clock always sets to your set * time plus 500 ms (because it is designed to update to the next * second precisely 500 ms after you finish the setting). */ do { if (time_resync) { gettimeofday(&beginsystime, NULL); tdiff = time_diff(beginsystime, refsystime); newhwtime = sethwtime + (int)(tdiff + 0.5); if (debug) printf(_ ("Time elapsed since reference time has been %.6f seconds.\n" "Delaying further to reach the new time.\n"), tdiff); time_resync = 0; } gettimeofday(&nowsystime, NULL); tdiff = time_diff(nowsystime, beginsystime); if (tdiff < 0) { time_resync = 1; /* probably backward time reset */ continue; } if (tdiff > 0.1) { time_resync = 1; /* probably forward time reset */ continue; } beginsystime = nowsystime; tdiff = time_diff(nowsystime, refsystime); } while (newhwtime == sethwtime + (int)(tdiff + 0.5)); set_hardware_clock(newhwtime, universal, testing); } /* * Put the time "systime" on standard output in display format. Except if * hclock_valid == false, just tell standard output that we don't know what * time it is. * * Include in the output the adjustment "sync_duration". */ static void display_time(const bool hclock_valid, const time_t systime, const double sync_duration) { if (!hclock_valid) warnx(_ ("The Hardware Clock registers contain values that are " "either invalid (e.g. 50th day of month) or beyond the range " "we can handle (e.g. Year 2095).")); else { struct tm *lt; char *format = "%c"; char ctime_now[200]; lt = localtime(&systime); strftime(ctime_now, sizeof(ctime_now), format, lt); printf(_("%s %.6f seconds\n"), ctime_now, -(sync_duration)); } } /* * Interpret the value of the --date option, which is something like * "13:05:01". In fact, it can be any of the myriad ASCII strings that * specify a time which the "date" program can understand. The date option * value in question is our "dateopt" argument. * * The specified time is in the local time zone. * * Our output, "*time_p", is a seconds-into-epoch time. * * We use the "date" program to interpret the date string. "date" must be * runnable by issuing the command "date" to the /bin/sh shell. That means * in must be in the current PATH. * * If anything goes wrong (and many things can), we return return code 10 * and arbitrary *time_p. Otherwise, return code is 0 and *time_p is valid. */ static int interpret_date_string(const char *date_opt, time_t * const time_p) { FILE *date_child_fp; char date_resp[100]; const char magic[] = "seconds-into-epoch="; char date_command[100]; int retcode; /* our eventual return code */ int rc; /* local return code */ if (date_opt == NULL) { warnx(_("No --date option specified.")); return 14; } /* prevent overflow - a security risk */ if (strlen(date_opt) > sizeof(date_command) - 50) { warnx(_("--date argument too long")); return 13; } /* Quotes in date_opt would ruin the date command we construct. */ if (strchr(date_opt, '"') != NULL) { warnx(_ ("The value of the --date option is not a valid date.\n" "In particular, it contains quotation marks.")); return 12; } sprintf(date_command, "date --date=\"%s\" +seconds-into-epoch=%%s", date_opt); if (debug) printf(_("Issuing date command: %s\n"), date_command); date_child_fp = popen(date_command, "r"); if (date_child_fp == NULL) { warn(_("Unable to run 'date' program in /bin/sh shell. " "popen() failed")); return 10; } if (!fgets(date_resp, sizeof(date_resp), date_child_fp)) date_resp[0] = '\0'; /* in case fgets fails */ if (debug) printf(_("response from date command = %s\n"), date_resp); if (strncmp(date_resp, magic, sizeof(magic) - 1) != 0) { warnx(_("The date command issued by %s returned " "unexpected results.\n" "The command was:\n %s\n" "The response was:\n %s"), program_invocation_short_name, date_command, date_resp); retcode = 8; } else { long seconds_since_epoch; rc = sscanf(date_resp + sizeof(magic) - 1, "%ld", &seconds_since_epoch); if (rc < 1) { warnx(_("The date command issued by %s returned " "something other than an integer where the " "converted time value was expected.\n" "The command was:\n %s\n" "The response was:\n %s\n"), program_invocation_short_name, date_command, date_resp); retcode = 6; } else { retcode = 0; *time_p = seconds_since_epoch; if (debug) printf(_("date string %s equates to " "%ld seconds since 1969.\n"), date_opt, (long)*time_p); } } pclose(date_child_fp); return retcode; } /* * Set the System Clock to time 'newtime'. * * Also set the kernel time zone value to the value indicated by the TZ * environment variable and/or /usr/lib/zoneinfo/, interpreted as tzset() * would interpret them. * * EXCEPT: if hclock_valid is false, just issue an error message saying * there is no valid time in the Hardware Clock to which to set the system * time. * * If 'testing' is true, don't actually update anything -- just say we would * have. */ static int set_system_clock(const bool hclock_valid, const time_t newtime, const bool testing) { int retcode; if (!hclock_valid) { warnx(_ ("The Hardware Clock does not contain a valid time, so " "we cannot set the System Time from it.")); retcode = 1; } else { struct timeval tv; struct tm *broken; int minuteswest; int rc; tv.tv_sec = newtime; tv.tv_usec = 0; broken = localtime(&newtime); #ifdef HAVE_TM_GMTOFF minuteswest = -broken->tm_gmtoff / 60; /* GNU extension */ #else minuteswest = timezone / 60; if (broken->tm_isdst) minuteswest -= 60; #endif if (debug) { printf(_("Calling settimeofday:\n")); printf(_("\ttv.tv_sec = %ld, tv.tv_usec = %ld\n"), (long)tv.tv_sec, (long)tv.tv_usec); printf(_("\ttz.tz_minuteswest = %d\n"), minuteswest); } if (testing) { printf(_ ("Not setting system clock because running in test mode.\n")); retcode = 0; } else { const struct timezone tz = { minuteswest, 0 }; rc = settimeofday(&tv, &tz); if (rc) { if (errno == EPERM) { warnx(_ ("Must be superuser to set system clock.")); retcode = EX_NOPERM; } else { warn(_("settimeofday() failed")); retcode = 1; } } else retcode = 0; } } return retcode; } /* * Reset the System Clock from local time to UTC, based on its current value * and the timezone unless universal is TRUE. * * Also set the kernel time zone value to the value indicated by the TZ * environment variable and/or /usr/lib/zoneinfo/, interpreted as tzset() * would interpret them. * * If 'testing' is true, don't actually update anything -- just say we would * have. */ static int set_system_clock_timezone(const bool universal, const bool testing) { int retcode; struct timeval tv; struct tm *broken; int minuteswest; int rc; gettimeofday(&tv, NULL); if (debug) { struct tm broken_time; char ctime_now[200]; broken_time = *gmtime(&tv.tv_sec); strftime(ctime_now, sizeof(ctime_now), "%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S", &broken_time); printf(_("Current system time: %ld = %s\n"), (long)tv.tv_sec, ctime_now); } broken = localtime(&tv.tv_sec); #ifdef HAVE_TM_GMTOFF minuteswest = -broken->tm_gmtoff / 60; /* GNU extension */ #else minuteswest = timezone / 60; if (broken->tm_isdst) minuteswest -= 60; #endif gettimeofday(&tv, NULL); if (!universal) tv.tv_sec += minuteswest * 60; if (debug) { struct tm broken_time; char ctime_now[200]; broken_time = *gmtime(&tv.tv_sec); strftime(ctime_now, sizeof(ctime_now), "%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S", &broken_time); printf(_("Calling settimeofday:\n")); printf(_("\tUTC: %s\n"), ctime_now); printf(_("\ttv.tv_sec = %ld, tv.tv_usec = %ld\n"), (long)tv.tv_sec, (long)tv.tv_usec); printf(_("\ttz.tz_minuteswest = %d\n"), minuteswest); } if (testing) { printf(_ ("Not setting system clock because running in test mode.\n")); retcode = 0; } else { const struct timezone tz = { minuteswest, 0 }; rc = settimeofday(&tv, &tz); if (rc) { if (errno == EPERM) { warnx(_ ("Must be superuser to set system clock.")); retcode = EX_NOPERM; } else { warn(_("settimeofday() failed")); retcode = 1; } } else retcode = 0; } return retcode; } /* * Update the drift factor in <*adjtime_p> to reflect the fact that the * Hardware Clock was calibrated to and before that was set to * . * * We record in the adjtime file the time at which we last calibrated the * clock so we can compute the drift rate each time we calibrate. * * EXCEPT: if is false, assume Hardware Clock was not set * before to anything meaningful and regular adjustments have not been done, * so don't adjust the drift factor. */ static void adjust_drift_factor(struct adjtime *adjtime_p, const time_t nowtime, const bool hclock_valid, const time_t hclocktime, const double sync_delay) { if (!hclock_valid) { if (debug) printf(_("Not adjusting drift factor because the " "Hardware Clock previously contained " "garbage.\n")); } else if (adjtime_p->last_calib_time == 0) { if (debug) printf(_("Not adjusting drift factor because last " "calibration time is zero,\n" "so history is bad and calibration startover " "is necessary.\n")); } else if ((hclocktime - adjtime_p->last_calib_time) < 23 * 60 * 60) { if (debug) printf(_("Not adjusting drift factor because it has " "been less than a day since the last " "calibration.\n")); } else if (adjtime_p->last_calib_time != 0) { /* * At adjustment time we adjust the hardware clock according * to the contents of /etc/adjtime. * * At calibration time we set the hardware clock and update * /etc/adjtime, that is, for each calibration (except the * first) we also do an adjustment. * * We are now at calibration time. * * Let us do computation in doubles. (Floats almost suffice, * but 195 days + 1 second equals 195 days in floats.) */ const double sec_per_day = 24.0 * 60.0 * 60.0; double atime_per_htime; double adj_days, cal_days; double exp_drift, unc_drift; double factor_adjust; /* Adjusted time units per hardware time unit */ atime_per_htime = 1.0 + adjtime_p->drift_factor / sec_per_day; /* Days since last adjustment (in hardware clock time) */ adj_days = (double)(hclocktime - adjtime_p->last_adj_time) / sec_per_day; /* Expected drift (sec) since last adjustment */ exp_drift = adj_days * adjtime_p->drift_factor + adjtime_p->not_adjusted; /* Uncorrected drift (sec) since last calibration */ unc_drift = (double)(nowtime - hclocktime) + sync_delay - exp_drift; /* Days since last calibration (in hardware clock time) */ cal_days = ((double)(adjtime_p->last_adj_time - adjtime_p->last_calib_time) + adjtime_p->not_adjusted) / (sec_per_day * atime_per_htime) + adj_days; /* Amount to add to previous drift factor */ factor_adjust = unc_drift / cal_days; if (debug) printf(_("Clock drifted %.1f seconds in the past " "%d seconds in spite of a drift factor of " "%f seconds/day.\n" "Adjusting drift factor by %f seconds/day\n"), unc_drift, (int)(nowtime - adjtime_p->last_calib_time), adjtime_p->drift_factor, factor_adjust); adjtime_p->drift_factor += factor_adjust; } adjtime_p->last_calib_time = nowtime; adjtime_p->last_adj_time = nowtime; adjtime_p->not_adjusted = 0; adjtime_p->dirty = TRUE; } /* * Do the drift adjustment calculation. * * The way we have to set the clock, we need the adjustment in two parts: * * 1) an integer number of seconds (return as *adjustment_p) * 2) a positive fraction of a second (less than 1) (return as *retro_p) * * The sum of these two values is the adjustment needed. Positive means to * advance the clock or insert seconds. Negative means to retard the clock * or remove seconds. */ static void calculate_adjustment(const double factor, const time_t last_time, const double not_adjusted, const time_t systime, int *adjustment_p, double *retro_p) { double exact_adjustment; exact_adjustment = ((double)(systime - last_time)) * factor / (24 * 60 * 60) + not_adjusted; *adjustment_p = FLOOR(exact_adjustment); *retro_p = exact_adjustment - (double)*adjustment_p; if (debug) { printf(_("Time since last adjustment is %d seconds\n"), (int)(systime - last_time)); printf(_("Need to insert %d seconds and refer time back " "%.6f seconds ago\n"), *adjustment_p, *retro_p); } } /* * Write the contents of the structure to its disk file. * * But if the contents are clean (unchanged since read from disk), don't * bother. */ static void save_adjtime(const struct adjtime adjtime, const bool testing) { char newfile[412]; /* Stuff to write to disk file */ if (adjtime.dirty) { /* * snprintf is not always available, but this is safe as * long as libc does not use more than 100 positions for %ld * or %f */ sprintf(newfile, "%f %ld %f\n%ld\n%s\n", adjtime.drift_factor, (long)adjtime.last_adj_time, adjtime.not_adjusted, (long)adjtime.last_calib_time, (adjtime.local_utc == UTC) ? "UTC" : "LOCAL"); if (testing) { printf(_ ("Not updating adjtime file because of testing mode.\n")); printf(_("Would have written the following to %s:\n%s"), adj_file_name, newfile); } else { FILE *adjfile; int err = 0; adjfile = fopen(adj_file_name, "w"); if (adjfile == NULL) { warn(_ ("Could not open file with the clock adjustment parameters " "in it (%s) for writing"), adj_file_name); err = 1; } else { if (fputs(newfile, adjfile) < 0) { warn(_ ("Could not update file with the clock adjustment " "parameters (%s) in it"), adj_file_name); err = 1; } if (fclose(adjfile) < 0) { warn(_ ("Could not update file with the clock adjustment " "parameters (%s) in it"), adj_file_name); err = 1; } } if (err) warnx(_ ("Drift adjustment parameters not updated.")); } } } /* * Do the adjustment requested, by 1) setting the Hardware Clock (if * necessary), and 2) updating the last-adjusted time in the adjtime * structure. * * Do not update anything if the Hardware Clock does not currently present a * valid time. * * Arguments and are current values from the adjtime * file. * * means the Hardware Clock contains a valid time, and that * time is . * * is the current system time (to be precise, it is the system * time at the time was read, which due to computational delay * could be a short time ago). * * : the Hardware Clock is kept in UTC. * * : We are running in test mode (no updating of clock). * * We do not bother to update the clock if the adjustment would be less than * one second. This is to avoid cumulative error and needless CPU hogging * (remember we use an infinite loop for some timing) if the user runs us * frequently. */ static void do_adjustment(struct adjtime *adjtime_p, const bool hclock_valid, const time_t hclocktime, const struct timeval read_time, const bool universal, const bool testing) { if (!hclock_valid) { warnx(_("The Hardware Clock does not contain a valid time, " "so we cannot adjust it.")); adjtime_p->last_calib_time = 0; /* calibration startover is required */ adjtime_p->last_adj_time = 0; adjtime_p->not_adjusted = 0; adjtime_p->dirty = TRUE; } else if (adjtime_p->last_adj_time == 0) { if (debug) printf(_ ("Not setting clock because last adjustment time is zero, " "so history is bad.")); } else { int adjustment; /* Number of seconds we must insert in the Hardware Clock */ double retro; /* * Fraction of second we have to remove from clock after * inserting whole seconds. */ calculate_adjustment(adjtime_p->drift_factor, adjtime_p->last_adj_time, adjtime_p->not_adjusted, hclocktime, &adjustment, &retro); if (adjustment > 0 || adjustment < -1) { set_hardware_clock_exact(hclocktime + adjustment, time_inc(read_time, -retro), universal, testing); adjtime_p->last_adj_time = hclocktime + adjustment; adjtime_p->not_adjusted = 0; adjtime_p->dirty = TRUE; } else if (debug) printf(_("Needed adjustment is less than one second, " "so not setting clock.\n")); } } static void determine_clock_access_method(const bool user_requests_ISA) { ur = NULL; if (user_requests_ISA) ur = probe_for_cmos_clock(); #ifdef __linux__ if (!ur) ur = probe_for_rtc_clock(); #endif if (!ur) ur = probe_for_kd_clock(); if (!ur && !user_requests_ISA) ur = probe_for_cmos_clock(); if (debug) { if (ur) printf(_("Using %s.\n"), ur->interface_name); else printf(_("No usable clock interface found.\n")); } } /* * Do all the normal work of hwclock - read, set clock, etc. * * Issue output to stdout and error message to stderr where appropriate. * * Return rc == 0 if everything went OK, rc != 0 if not. */ static int manipulate_clock(const bool show, const bool adjust, const bool noadjfile, const bool set, const time_t set_time, const bool hctosys, const bool systohc, const bool systz, const struct timeval startup_time, const bool utc, const bool local_opt, const bool testing, const bool predict) { /* Contents of the adjtime file, or what they should be. */ struct adjtime adjtime; bool universal; /* Set if user lacks necessary authorization to access the clock */ bool no_auth; /* The time at which we read the Hardware Clock */ struct timeval read_time; /* * The Hardware Clock gives us a valid time, or at * least something close enough to fool mktime(). */ bool hclock_valid = FALSE; /* * The time the hardware clock had just after we * synchronized to its next clock tick when we * started up. Defined only if hclock_valid is true. */ time_t hclocktime = 0; /* local return code */ int rc; if (!systz && !predict) { no_auth = ur->get_permissions(); if (no_auth) return EX_NOPERM; } if (!noadjfile && (adjust || set || systohc || (!utc && !local_opt) || predict)) { rc = read_adjtime(&adjtime); if (rc) return rc; } else { /* A little trick to avoid reading the file if we don't have to */ adjtime.dirty = FALSE; rc = 0; } universal = hw_clock_is_utc(utc, local_opt, adjtime); if ((set || systohc || adjust) && (adjtime.local_utc == UTC) != universal) { adjtime.local_utc = universal ? UTC : LOCAL; adjtime.dirty = TRUE; } if (show || adjust || hctosys || (!noadjfile && !systz && !predict)) { /* data from HW-clock are required */ rc = synchronize_to_clock_tick(); /* * 2 = synchronization timeout. We don't * error out if the user is attempting to * set the RTC - the RTC could be * functioning but contain invalid time data * so we still want to allow a user to set * the RTC time. */ if (rc && rc != 2 && !set && !systohc) return EX_IOERR; gettimeofday(&read_time, NULL); /* * If we can't synchronize to a clock tick, * we likely can't read from the RTC so * don't bother reading it again. */ if (!rc) { rc = read_hardware_clock(universal, &hclock_valid, &hclocktime); if (rc && !set && !systohc) return EX_IOERR; } } if (show) { display_time(hclock_valid, hclocktime, time_diff(read_time, startup_time)); } else if (set) { set_hardware_clock_exact(set_time, startup_time, universal, testing); if (!noadjfile) adjust_drift_factor(&adjtime, set_time, hclock_valid, hclocktime, time_diff(read_time, startup_time)); } else if (adjust) { do_adjustment(&adjtime, hclock_valid, hclocktime, read_time, universal, testing); } else if (systohc) { struct timeval nowtime, reftime; /* * We can only set_hardware_clock_exact to a * whole seconds time, so we set it with * reference to the most recent whole * seconds time. */ gettimeofday(&nowtime, NULL); reftime.tv_sec = nowtime.tv_sec; reftime.tv_usec = 0; set_hardware_clock_exact((time_t) reftime.tv_sec, reftime, universal, testing); if (!noadjfile) adjust_drift_factor(&adjtime, (time_t) reftime.tv_sec, hclock_valid, hclocktime, (double) read_time.tv_usec / 1E6); } else if (hctosys) { rc = set_system_clock(hclock_valid, hclocktime, testing); if (rc) { printf(_("Unable to set system clock.\n")); return rc; } } else if (systz) { rc = set_system_clock_timezone(universal, testing); if (rc) { printf(_("Unable to set system clock.\n")); return rc; } } else if (predict) { int adjustment; double retro; calculate_adjustment(adjtime.drift_factor, adjtime.last_adj_time, adjtime.not_adjusted, set_time, &adjustment, &retro); if (debug) { printf(_ ("At %ld seconds after 1969, RTC is predicted to read %ld seconds after 1969.\n"), set_time, set_time + adjustment); } display_time(TRUE, set_time + adjustment, -retro); } if (!noadjfile) save_adjtime(adjtime, testing); return 0; } /* * Get or set the Hardware Clock epoch value in the kernel, as appropriate. * , , and are hwclock invocation options. * * == -1 if the user did not specify an "epoch" option. */ #ifdef __linux__ /* * Maintenance note: This should work on non-Alpha machines, but the * evidence today (98.03.04) indicates that the kernel only keeps the epoch * value on Alphas. If that is ever fixed, this function should be changed. */ # ifndef __alpha__ static void manipulate_epoch(const bool getepoch __attribute__ ((__unused__)), const bool setepoch __attribute__ ((__unused__)), const int epoch_opt __attribute__ ((__unused__)), const bool testing __attribute__ ((__unused__))) { warnx(_("The kernel keeps an epoch value for the Hardware Clock " "only on an Alpha machine.\nThis copy of hwclock was built for " "a machine other than Alpha\n(and thus is presumably not running " "on an Alpha now). No action taken.")); } # else static void manipulate_epoch(const bool getepoch, const bool setepoch, const int epoch_opt, const bool testing) { if (getepoch) { unsigned long epoch; if (get_epoch_rtc(&epoch, 0)) warnx(_ ("Unable to get the epoch value from the kernel.")); else printf(_("Kernel is assuming an epoch value of %lu\n"), epoch); } else if (setepoch) { if (epoch_opt == -1) warnx(_ ("To set the epoch value, you must use the 'epoch' " "option to tell to what value to set it.")); else if (testing) printf(_ ("Not setting the epoch to %d - testing only.\n"), epoch_opt); else if (set_epoch_rtc(epoch_opt)) printf(_ ("Unable to set the epoch value in the kernel.\n")); } } # endif /* __alpha__ */ #endif /* __linux__ */ static void out_version(void) { printf(_("%s from %s\n"), program_invocation_short_name, PACKAGE_STRING); } /* * usage - Output (error and) usage information * * This function is called both directly from main to show usage information * and as fatal function from shhopt if some argument is not understood. In * case of normal usage info FMT should be NULL. In that case the info is * printed to stdout. If FMT is given usage will act like fprintf( stderr, * fmt, ... ), show a usage information and terminate the program * afterwards. */ static void usage(const char *fmt, ...) { FILE *usageto; va_list ap; usageto = fmt ? stderr : stdout; fprintf(usageto, _("hwclock - query and set the hardware clock (RTC)\n\n" "Usage: hwclock [function] [options...]\n\n" "Functions:\n" " -h | --help show this help\n" " -r | --show read hardware clock and print result\n" " --set set the rtc to the time given with --date\n" " -s | --hctosys set the system time from the hardware clock\n" " -w | --systohc set the hardware clock to the current system time\n" " --systz set the system time based on the current timezone\n" " --adjust adjust the rtc to account for systematic drift since\n" " the clock was last set or adjusted\n")); #ifdef __linux__ fprintf(usageto, _(" --getepoch print out the kernel's hardware clock epoch value\n" " --setepoch set the kernel's hardware clock epoch value to the \n" " value given with --epoch\n")); #endif fprintf(usageto, _(" --predict predict rtc reading at time given with --date\n" " -v | --version print out the version of hwclock to stdout\n" "\nOptions: \n" " -u | --utc the hardware clock is kept in UTC\n" " --localtime the hardware clock is kept in local time\n")); #ifdef __linux__ fprintf(usageto, _(" -f | --rtc=path special /dev/... file to use instead of default\n")); #endif fprintf(usageto, _(" --directisa access the ISA bus directly instead of %s\n" " --badyear ignore rtc's year because the bios is broken\n" " --date specifies the time to which to set the hardware clock\n" " --epoch=year specifies the year which is the beginning of the \n" " hardware clock's epoch value\n" " --noadjfile do not access %s. Requires the use of\n" " either --utc or --localtime\n" " --adjfile=path specifies the path to the adjust file (default is\n" " %s)\n" " --test do everything except actually updating the hardware\n" " clock or anything else\n" " -D | --debug debug mode\n" "\n"), _PATH_RTC_DEV, _PATH_ADJPATH, _PATH_ADJPATH); #ifdef __alpha__ fprintf(usageto, _(" -J|--jensen, -A|--arc, -S|--srm, -F|--funky-toy\n" " tell hwclock the type of alpha you have (see hwclock(8))\n" "\n")); #endif fflush(usageto); if (fmt) { usageto = stderr; va_start(ap, fmt); vfprintf(stderr, fmt, ap); va_end(ap); } hwclock_exit(fmt ? EX_USAGE : EX_OK); } static const struct option longopts[] = { {"adjust", 0, 0, 'a'}, {"help", 0, 0, 'h'}, {"show", 0, 0, 'r'}, {"hctosys", 0, 0, 's'}, {"utc", 0, 0, 'u'}, {"version", 0, 0, 'v'}, {"systohc", 0, 0, 'w'}, {"debug", 0, 0, 'D'}, #ifdef __alpha__ {"ARC", 0, 0, 'A'}, {"arc", 0, 0, 'A'}, {"Jensen", 0, 0, 'J'}, {"jensen", 0, 0, 'J'}, {"SRM", 0, 0, 'S'}, {"srm", 0, 0, 'S'}, {"funky-toy", 0, 0, 'F'}, #endif {"set", 0, 0, 128}, #ifdef __linux__ {"getepoch", 0, 0, 129}, {"setepoch", 0, 0, 130}, #endif {"noadjfile", 0, 0, 131}, {"localtime", 0, 0, 132}, {"badyear", 0, 0, 133}, {"directisa", 0, 0, 134}, {"test", 0, 0, 135}, {"date", 1, 0, 136}, {"epoch", 1, 0, 137}, #ifdef __linux__ {"rtc", 1, 0, 'f'}, #endif {"adjfile", 1, 0, 138}, {"systz", 0, 0, 139}, {"predict-hc", 0, 0, 140}, {NULL, 0, 0, 0} }; /* * Returns: * EX_USAGE: bad invocation * EX_NOPERM: no permission * EX_OSFILE: cannot open /dev/rtc or /etc/adjtime * EX_IOERR: ioctl error getting or setting the time * 0: OK (or not) * 1: failure */ int main(int argc, char **argv) { struct timeval startup_time; /* * The time we started up, in seconds into the epoch, including * fractions. */ time_t set_time = 0; /* Time to which user said to set Hardware Clock */ bool permitted; /* User is permitted to do the function */ int rc, c; /* Variables set by various options; show may also be set later */ /* The options debug, badyear and epoch_option are global */ bool show, set, systohc, hctosys, systz, adjust, getepoch, setepoch, predict; bool utc, testing, local_opt, noadjfile, directisa; char *date_opt; #ifdef __alpha__ bool ARCconsole, Jensen, SRM, funky_toy; #endif /* Remember what time we were invoked */ gettimeofday(&startup_time, NULL); #ifdef HAVE_LIBAUDIT hwaudit_fd = audit_open(); if (hwaudit_fd < 0 && !(errno == EINVAL || errno == EPROTONOSUPPORT || errno == EAFNOSUPPORT)) { /* * You get these error codes only when the kernel doesn't * have audit compiled in. */ warnx(_("Unable to connect to audit system")); return EX_NOPERM; } #endif setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); #ifdef LC_NUMERIC /* * We need LC_CTYPE and LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES, but must avoid * LC_NUMERIC since it gives problems when we write to /etc/adjtime. * - gqueri@mail.dotcom.fr */ setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C"); #endif bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR); textdomain(PACKAGE); /* Set option defaults */ show = set = systohc = hctosys = systz = adjust = noadjfile = predict = FALSE; getepoch = setepoch = utc = local_opt = directisa = testing = debug = FALSE; #ifdef __alpha__ ARCconsole = Jensen = SRM = funky_toy = badyear = FALSE; #endif date_opt = NULL; while ((c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "?hvVDarsuwAJSFf:", longopts, NULL)) != -1) { switch (c) { case 'D': debug = TRUE; break; case 'a': adjust = TRUE; break; case 'r': show = TRUE; break; case 's': hctosys = TRUE; break; case 'u': utc = TRUE; break; case 'w': systohc = TRUE; break; #ifdef __alpha__ case 'A': ARCconsole = TRUE; break; case 'J': Jensen = TRUE; break; case 'S': SRM = TRUE; break; case 'F': funky_toy = TRUE; break; #endif case 128: set = TRUE; break; #ifdef __linux__ case 129: getepoch = TRUE; break; case 130: setepoch = TRUE; break; #endif case 131: noadjfile = TRUE; break; case 132: local_opt = TRUE; /* --localtime */ break; case 133: badyear = TRUE; break; case 134: directisa = TRUE; break; case 135: testing = TRUE; /* --test */ break; case 136: date_opt = optarg; /* --date */ break; case 137: epoch_option = atoi(optarg); /* --epoch */ break; case 138: adj_file_name = optarg; /* --adjfile */ break; case 139: systz = TRUE; /* --systz */ break; case 140: predict = TRUE; /* --predict-hc */ break; #ifdef __linux__ case 'f': rtc_dev_name = optarg; /* --rtc */ break; #endif case 'v': /* --version */ case 'V': out_version(); return 0; case 'h': /* --help */ case '?': default: usage(NULL); } } argc -= optind; argv += optind; #ifdef HAVE_LIBAUDIT if (testing != TRUE) { if (adjust == TRUE || hctosys == TRUE || systohc == TRUE || set == TRUE || setepoch == TRUE) { hwaudit_on = TRUE; } } #endif if (argc > 0) { usage(_("%s takes no non-option arguments. " "You supplied %d.\n"), program_invocation_short_name, argc); } if (show + set + systohc + hctosys + systz + adjust + getepoch + setepoch + predict > 1) { warnx(_("You have specified multiple functions.\n" "You can only perform one function at a time.")); hwclock_exit(EX_USAGE); } if (utc && local_opt) { warnx(_("The --utc and --localtime options " "are mutually exclusive. You specified both.")); hwclock_exit(EX_USAGE); } if (adjust && noadjfile) { warnx(_("The --adjust and --noadjfile options " "are mutually exclusive. You specified both.")); hwclock_exit(EX_USAGE); } if (adj_file_name && noadjfile) { warnx(_("The --adjfile and --noadjfile options " "are mutually exclusive. You specified both.")); hwclock_exit(EX_USAGE); } if (!adj_file_name) adj_file_name = _PATH_ADJPATH; if (noadjfile && !(utc || local_opt)) { warnx(_("With --noadjfile, you must specify " "either --utc or --localtime")); hwclock_exit(EX_USAGE); } #ifdef __alpha__ set_cmos_epoch(ARCconsole, SRM); set_cmos_access(Jensen, funky_toy); #endif if (set || predict) { rc = interpret_date_string(date_opt, &set_time); /* (time-consuming) */ if (rc != 0) { warnx(_("No usable set-to time. " "Cannot set clock.")); hwclock_exit(EX_USAGE); } } if (!(show | set | systohc | hctosys | systz | adjust | getepoch | setepoch | predict)) show = 1; /* default to show */ if (getuid() == 0) permitted = TRUE; else { /* program is designed to run setuid (in some situations) */ if (set || systohc || adjust) { warnx(_("Sorry, only the superuser can change " "the Hardware Clock.")); permitted = FALSE; } else if (systz || hctosys) { warnx(_("Sorry, only the superuser can change " "the System Clock.")); permitted = FALSE; } else if (setepoch) { warnx(_("Sorry, only the superuser can change the " "Hardware Clock epoch in the kernel.")); permitted = FALSE; } else permitted = TRUE; } if (!permitted) hwclock_exit(EX_NOPERM); #ifdef __linux__ if (getepoch || setepoch) { manipulate_epoch(getepoch, setepoch, epoch_option, testing); hwclock_exit(EX_OK); } #endif if (debug) out_version(); if (!systz && !predict) { determine_clock_access_method(directisa); if (!ur) { warnx(_("Cannot access the Hardware Clock via " "any known method.")); if (!debug) warnx(_("Use the --debug option to see the " "details of our search for an access " "method.")); hwclock_exit(EX_SOFTWARE); } } rc = manipulate_clock(show, adjust, noadjfile, set, set_time, hctosys, systohc, systz, startup_time, utc, local_opt, testing, predict); hwclock_exit(rc); return rc; /* Not reached */ } #ifdef HAVE_LIBAUDIT /* * hwclock_exit calls either this function or plain exit depending * HAVE_LIBAUDIT, see also clock.h */ void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) hwaudit_exit(int status) { if (hwaudit_on) { audit_log_user_message(hwaudit_fd, AUDIT_USYS_CONFIG, "changing system time", NULL, NULL, NULL, status ? 0 : 1); close(hwaudit_fd); } exit(status); } #endif /* * History of this program: * * 98.08.12 BJH Version 2.4 * * Don't use century byte from Hardware Clock. Add comments telling why. * * 98.06.20 BJH Version 2.3. * * Make --hctosys set the kernel timezone from TZ environment variable * and/or /usr/lib/zoneinfo. From Klaus Ripke (klaus@ripke.com). * * 98.03.05 BJH. Version 2.2. * * Add --getepoch and --setepoch. * * Fix some word length things so it works on Alpha. * * Make it work when /dev/rtc doesn't have the interrupt functions. In this * case, busywait for the top of a second instead of blocking and waiting * for the update complete interrupt. * * Fix a bunch of bugs too numerous to mention. * * 97.06.01: BJH. Version 2.1. Read and write the century byte (Byte 50) of * the ISA Hardware Clock when using direct ISA I/O. Problem discovered by * job (jei@iclnl.icl.nl). * * Use the rtc clock access method in preference to the KDGHWCLK method. * Problem discovered by Andreas Schwab . * * November 1996: Version 2.0.1. Modifications by Nicolai Langfeldt * (janl@math.uio.no) to make it compile on linux 1.2 machines as well as * more recent versions of the kernel. Introduced the NO_CLOCK access method * and wrote feature test code to detect absense of rtc headers. * *************************************************************************** * Maintenance notes * * To compile this, you must use GNU compiler optimization (-O option) in * order to make the "extern inline" functions from asm/io.h (inb(), etc.) * compile. If you don't optimize, which means the compiler will generate no * inline functions, the references to these functions in this program will * be compiled as external references. Since you probably won't be linking * with any functions by these names, you will have unresolved external * references when you link. * * The program is designed to run setuid superuser, since we need to be able * to do direct I/O. (More to the point: we need permission to execute the * iopl() system call). (However, if you use one of the methods other than * direct ISA I/O to access the clock, no setuid is required). * * Here's some info on how we must deal with the time that elapses while * this program runs: There are two major delays as we run: * * 1) Waiting up to 1 second for a transition of the Hardware Clock so * we are synchronized to the Hardware Clock. * 2) Running the "date" program to interpret the value of our --date * option. * * Reading the /etc/adjtime file is the next biggest source of delay and * uncertainty. * * The user wants to know what time it was at the moment he invoked us, not * some arbitrary time later. And in setting the clock, he is giving us the * time at the moment we are invoked, so if we set the clock some time * later, we have to add some time to that. * * So we check the system time as soon as we start up, then run "date" and * do file I/O if necessary, then wait to synchronize with a Hardware Clock * edge, then check the system time again to see how much time we spent. We * immediately read the clock then and (if appropriate) report that time, * and additionally, the delay we measured. * * If we're setting the clock to a time given by the user, we wait some more * so that the total delay is an integral number of seconds, then set the * Hardware Clock to the time the user requested plus that integral number * of seconds. N.B. The Hardware Clock can only be set in integral seconds. * * If we're setting the clock to the system clock value, we wait for the * system clock to reach the top of a second, and then set the Hardware * Clock to the system clock's value. * * Here's an interesting point about setting the Hardware Clock: On my * machine, when you set it, it sets to that precise time. But one can * imagine another clock whose update oscillator marches on a steady one * second period, so updating the clock between any two oscillator ticks is * the same as updating it right at the earlier tick. To avoid any * complications that might cause, we set the clock as soon as possible * after an oscillator tick. * * About synchronizing to the Hardware Clock when reading the time: The * precision of the Hardware Clock counters themselves is one second. You * can't read the counters and find out that is 12:01:02.5. But if you * consider the location in time of the counter's ticks as part of its * value, then its precision is as infinite as time is continuous! What I'm * saying is this: To find out the _exact_ time in the hardware clock, we * wait until the next clock tick (the next time the second counter changes) * and measure how long we had to wait. We then read the value of the clock * counters and subtract the wait time and we know precisely what time it * was when we set out to query the time. * * hwclock uses this method, and considers the Hardware Clock to have * infinite precision. * * TODO: Enhancements needed: * * - When waiting for whole second boundary in set_hardware_clock_exact, * fail if we miss the goal by more than .1 second, as could happen if we * get pre-empted (by the kernel dispatcher). */