[mythtv] Timezone handling bug

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Tue Apr 5 04:00:18 UTC 2005


On Monday 04 April 2005 10:07 pm, Jonathan Watmough wrote:
> After the spring forward, my guide data is now incorrect. I cleared
> the program table and run mythfilldatabase again, but the data is
> still incorrect.
>
> I reset the /etc/localtime link from CST6CDT which is correct, to
> America/Chicago which should also be correct, but the problem of my
> guide being an hour early persisted.
>
> The 'solution' was to temporarily link to America/New York, run
> mythfilldatabase, then reset the link to normal.
>
> Mythtv appears to pick up the correct time according to my
> /etc/localtime, but the mythfilldatabase code appears to 'lose' the
> hour forward.
>
> I'm running the CVS from a few days ago, if that helps anyone.
>
> I looked on Google, but most peoples problem appears to be related to
> not setting the tz properly. Am I missing something ?

Aside from something like 30 or 40 messages on the users list, a message from 
the cvs commits list saying that it's fixed, etc?  The fact that it's a Qt 
bug, not a myth one?

Isaac


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