[mythtv-users] Changing System Time

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 12:20 pm, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> 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?

15 seconds or so while it's playing back a remote file/live tv.  It's really a 
complete non-issue if your hardware a) works, or b) you're semi-intelligent 
about when you schedule your ntp updates.  Could be pretty easily fixed, but 
I'm not interested in spending my time on it.

Isaac