[mythtv] NTP config

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Thu Oct 20 14:11:41 UTC 2005


On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:57:40AM -0400, Steve Adeff wrote:
> is this why so many shows don't start "on time"? If the TV stations follow 
> their own time code then it would make more sense for mythbackend to run on 
> this time. I guess the only issue is if two stations are running on their 
> own, differing time...?

No; local affils should be, and the networks almost certainly are,
following scheduler clocks that are within a second of UTC, if not much
more tightly coupled.  These days, still, that's more likely to be an
ESE or Datum/Bancomm GPS master clock than NTP, but... the times, they
are a changin'

Cheers,
-- jr 'sorry, couldn't resist' a
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