[mythtv-users] Listings off by one hour

[Drew Whittle]

See a message I posted earlier in the week, basically it looks to me
like the timeoffset stuff in mythfilldatabase is all busted up.

I haven't had time to do something about it yet though.

:D
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 11:52, Erik Dooper wrote:
> OK,
> 
> this is driving me nuts. Ever since we went on daylight savings (I
> live in Holland) last weekend, my listings are off by one hour. I've
> checked my setup over and over, and I 
> can't find what's wrong. 
> My backend server is in the same timezone (Europe/Amsterdam) as the
> site where the listings come from, and the clock is synced by cron
> with a ntp server every night. A 'date' gives the correct time. My
> hardware clock is running on time as well.
> 
> I've set TimeOffset tot 'None' through mythsetup. If I set it to
> anything else, it's calculated correctly. For example, if I set
> TimeOffset to +0200, everything is off by two hours, but None and Auto
> cause it to be off by one hour.
> 
> I had a look at the the piece of code that is responsible for the
> timeoffset calculation and the
> timeoffset is somehow calculated as 60 for my setup, instead of 0. I
> don't know why it does that, though. I suspect some obscure system
> setting, in true Unix fashion tucked deep deep down somewhere...
> 
> Does somebody have a clue where to look next ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Erik
> 
> 
> PS. I was very confused by the statement 'Ignoring invalid
> Timeoffset'. I could not figure out how that could be invalid since
> one chooses it from a dropdown box. Until I saw in the source that, if
> you set TimeOffset to None, it is made invalid on purpose, causing
> this confusing message to be printed. What's the idea behind this ? 
> 
> 
> 
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