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LIN1018-4382 : Unix time built by WindRiver Linux LTS18 does not start from 1970-01-01

Created: Jul 3, 2019 Updated: Oct 14, 2019

Resolved Date: Oct 14, 2019

Found In Version: 10.18.44.7

Fix Version: 10.18.44.11

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 18

Component/s: Userspace

Description

This is not a bug, more a question on usability.

In WRL LTS18, if there is no RTC or network time synchronization, the Unix time of the target image does not start from 1970-01-01, but from the kernel build time.

In order to test this, I'm running a VM with my image without time synchronization and when running "date" I get a past date:

Thu Jun 20 16:07:27 UTC 2019

which also matches the build time in /proc/stat: "btime 1561046842"