[mythtv-users] Changing System Time

Ray Olszewski ray at comarre.com
Wed Aug 6 10:20:21 EDT 2003


At 10:45 AM 8/6/2003 -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
[...]
>There are two issues here... one is the underlying protocol, the other is
>the Myth software.  Sometimes, if you adjust the system time, a
>connection-based protocol like TCP/IP could think the connection has timed
>out.  The other issue is Myth itself, if it keeps track of network
>communications with any kind of heartbeat or timer, it can get confused.
>And, as Isaac said, playback (and probably recording, too) is highly
>time-sensitive.

This *seems* to imply that an automated ntp-based time adjustment could 
cause Myth to hang. Am I reading this right? How big a time correction 
*can* Myth survive?






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