#12621 NORM Future : powerd should be tolerant of time/date prior to unix epoch

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#12621: powerd should be tolerant of time/date prior to unix epoch
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 Reporter:  pgf                     |                 Owner:  pgf                              
     Type:  defect                  |                Status:  new                              
 Priority:  normal                  |             Milestone:  Future Release                   
Component:  power manager (powerd)  |               Version:  Development build as of this date
 Keywords:                          |           Next_action:  code                             
 Verified:  0                       |   Deployment_affected:                                   
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 it's possible in some unusual cases for the linux time-of-day to be set
 prior to jan 1 1970. in this case "date +%s" will return a negative
 number.

 this breaks some assumptions powerd makes regarding the validity of
 received events (which are timestamped), and it discards them all.  thus
 it pretty much refuses to operate, making the system unusable at boot.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12621>
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