Should we document a time zone for the RTEMS epoch?

[Sebastian Huber]

Hello,

I try to update the clock manager documentation and noticed that there 
is no time zone specified for the RTEMS epoch. In the timecounter 
initialization we use:

static struct timehands th0 = {
[...]
#ifdef __rtems__
     .th_bintime = { .sec = TOD_SECONDS_1970_THROUGH_1988 },
     .th_microtime = { TOD_SECONDS_1970_THROUGH_1988, 0 },
     .th_nanotime = { TOD_SECONDS_1970_THROUGH_1988, 0 },
     .th_boottime = { .sec = TOD_SECONDS_1970_THROUGH_1988 - 1 },
#endif /* __rtems__ */

[...]

};

Since Unix epoch is 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z, this basically defines that 
the RTEMS epoch is 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z. Should this be documented? The 
current implementation also implies that the time reported by RTEMS is 
in UTC (modulo leap seconds).

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