[mythtv-users] DST-related guide problem - inserted into db off by one hour

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Mar 11 01:14:24 UTC 2008


On 03/10/2008 09:58 PM, Jesse Burt wrote:
> It appears I've been bitten by a bit of carelessness on my part (or so I
> thought at first, now I just don't know) and the silliness that is
> Daylight Savings Time. I run an AMD64 Gentoo Myth backend (0.20.2p15634)
> that uses ntp to sync with internet timeservers every boot. Yesterday
> when time rolled forward an hour, for some reason the ntp daemon never
> picked it up (IIRC, it has worked in the past).

Sounds like your computer(s) have old (invalid) zoneinfo data.  You need 
to fix that first--otherwise, all you're doing is breaking a working 
config to make it work correctly for a few weeks, then you'll have to 
fix it again...

Mike


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