North American DST Changes

General

As most North American users know by now, the U.S. gov't has mandated that DST changes start earlier beginning in 2007.

Being that Myth is heavily dependent on having the correct time information, having the correct time is crucial. Here is how update your time:

cd
mkdir tzinfo
cd tzinfo
wget ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007c.tar.gz
tar zxf tzdata2007c.tar.gz
zic -d /tmp/zoneinfo northamerica
cd /tmp/zoneinfo
cp -r * /usr/share/zoneinfo

After performing the above commands, you should have new time zone info in /usr/share/zoneinfo. Next just run

timeconfig

to select your timezone. After setting your timezone, you may want to run

ntpdate 128.100.100.128

to sync with an NTP server (NOTE: this command does NOT set up ntpd for you, it's just a one-time sync).

User Notes

• This worked for User:Lynchmv on Slackware 10.2.0

• Gentoo Users

I built my Gnetoo/Mythbox over a year ago (almost2) and forgot to update the timezone for the new US DST settings.

All my Schedule Times were off by an hour (like the 11:00 news showed up at 10:00)....

do the following (as root)

emerge --sync

emerge sys-libs/timezone-data

Check your clock and the Listings in myth

That's it

Resources

LinuxQuestions.org

Time Zone Sources

Time Zone Sources FTP

General Daylight Time Info