[mythtv-users] Daylight Savings Time, NTP, and reboot

[Michael J. Lynch]

Wouldn't it be easier to figure out the answer to your question
if you just set up to do a recording at the time in question,
advanced the clock on the backend and then see what your
results are?


Mario L wrote:

>I'm still a bit confused.... Well so if you have your timezone set to
>"local", and that is the time saved to your HW clock, will there be
>issues?
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>On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:25:05 -0500, Jeff Simpson <llcooljeff at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>there's a seperate TZ for myth? I have my timezone set for gentoo
>>properly already, i think (times appear correct at the console when I
>>type "date" and hwclock shows the time in GMT).
>>
>> -Jeff
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>>On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:18:27 -0600 (CST), Brian Foddy <bfoddy at visi.com > wrote:
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>>>Assuming your system timezone (TZ) variable is set correctly,
>>>you shouldn't need to do anything for the time shift.  Doesn't
>>>matter if NTP is running or not, as it internally works on UTC time only.
>>>
>>>To the user who changed their system clock to UTC manually, unless
>>>you override the TZ variable for mythtv, you could be heading for trouble
>>>by trying to out-smart the already smart system.
>>>
>>>Brian
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>>>On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Chris Clarke wrote:
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>>>>Hi All,
>>>>
>>>>    Hoping for some quick guidance on this, I've got myth up and
>>>>running and all is good.  I'm going away for a couple days starting
>>>>tomorrow and I won't be back until tuesday or wednesday.  Is Daylight
>>>>Savings Time going to screw anything up for me?  Should I set the
>>>>backend computer to re-boot early Sunday morning?
>>>>
>>>>TIA,
>>>>
>>>>Chris
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