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+/*
+ * (C) Copyright 2001
+ * Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
+ *
+ * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
+ * project.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
+ * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
+ * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Generic RTC interface.
+ */
+#ifndef _RTC_H_
+#define _RTC_H_
+
+/*
+ * The struct used to pass data from the generic interface code to
+ * the hardware dependend low-level code ande vice versa. Identical
+ * to struct rtc_time used by the Linux kernel.
+ *
+ * Note that there are small but significant differences to the
+ * common "struct time":
+ *
+ * 		struct time:		struct rtc_time:
+ * tm_mon	0 ... 11		1 ... 12
+ * tm_year	years since 1900	years since 0
+ */
+
+struct rtc_time {
+	int tm_sec;
+	int tm_min;
+	int tm_hour;
+	int tm_mday;
+	int tm_mon;
+	int tm_year;
+	int tm_wday;
+	int tm_yday;
+	int tm_isdst;
+};
+
+void rtc_get (struct rtc_time *);
+void rtc_set (struct rtc_time *);
+void rtc_reset (void);
+
+void GregorianDay (struct rtc_time *);
+void to_tm (int, struct rtc_time *);
+unsigned long mktime (unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int,
+		      unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int);
+
+#endif	/* _RTC_H_ */