[mythtv-users] US MythTV users: will your recordings be 1 houroff on March 11th?

hank hgedrich at myrealbox.com
Thu Jan 25 13:12:29 UTC 2007


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Matt
> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 1:09 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] US MythTV users: will your 
> recordings be 1 houroff on March 11th?
> 
> On 1/17/07, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 1/17/07, mythusers.jtuttle at xoxy.net 
> <mythusers.jtuttle at xoxy.net> wrote:
> > > Does anyone know how to perform a similar check on a 
> Debian-based system?
> > >
> > > Or more generally, how to check and see what the local timezone 
> > > rules are, and what's going to change on what particular dates? I 
> > > had a devil of a time getting my local timezone set 
> initially when I 
> > > set up my box (system clock was set to the correct local time but 
> > > with zone "UTC", apparently the result of Windows that 
> was running 
> > > on the hardware before...took me longer than I'd like to 
> admit to notice what was wrong).
> > >
> > > I'm running Knoppmyth R5D1 (Thanks, Chris!) so I suspect 
> that it has 
> > > all the new TZ rules, but I'm curious how one would do the 
> > > equivalent of "rpm -q tzdata". I think the timezone files are all 
> > > kept in /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo, but I'm not sure which 
> package updates them (maybe tzselect?).
> > >
> > > Any more experienced Debian users want to clarify?
> >
> >
> > first run Henry Harper's test to see what you get, if the second 
> > letter is an S its on standard time, D is daylight savings.
> > if its a "D" then your good to go, if its an S then update your 
> > package list (apt-get update) and then install the new tzdata, 
> > "apt-get install tzdata". This will update your time zone 
> information, 
> > and I believe it will reset your timezone as well, so run 
> tzconfig to 
> > set your proper time zone again.
> >
> 
> I'm pretty sure that older debian systems doesn't have a "tzdata".
> All timezone information is kept in the libc6 package.
> 
> So an: apt-get update
> followed by an: apt-get install libc6
> 
> ...will install new timezone information for older debian systems.
> Don't ask my what "newer" debian systems take.  All my newer 
> debian systems are actually ubuntu and I didn't have to 
> update them for the new DST rules.
> 
> Matt
> _______________________________________________

I am using KnoppMyth R5D1 and the timezone info is incorrect. I also read
that libc6 contains the tz info but it seems I have the current version (and
can't figure out how to update the tz info):

I did this to check the tz info:

root at mythtv:~# zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern | grep 2007
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern Sun Apr 1 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1
01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern Sun Apr 1 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1
03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern Sun Oct 28 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28
01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern Sun Oct 28 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28
01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000

I did an apt-get update and then tried to update libc6 and got this:

root at mythtv:~# apt-get install libc6
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
libc6 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 380 not upgraded.



Then some more reading suggested there is a "tzdata" package, apt-get can't
find it:

root at mythtv:~# apt-get install tzdata
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package tzdata



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