[mythtv-users] US MythTV users: will your recordings be 1 houroff on March 11th?

Jon Larson jtlarson at u.washington.edu
Thu Jan 25 18:35:02 UTC 2007



hank wrote:
>  
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Matt
>> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 1:09 AM
>> To: Discussion about mythtv
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] US MythTV users: will your 
>> recordings be 1 houroff on March 11th?
>>
>> On 1/17/07, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> On 1/17/07, mythusers.jtuttle at xoxy.net 
>>>       
>> <mythusers.jtuttle at xoxy.net> wrote:
>>     
>>>> Does anyone know how to perform a similar check on a 
>>>>         
>> Debian-based system?
>>     
>>>> Or more generally, how to check and see what the local timezone 
>>>> rules are, and what's going to change on what particular dates? I 
>>>> had a devil of a time getting my local timezone set 
>>>>         
>> initially when I 
>>     
>>>> set up my box (system clock was set to the correct local time but 
>>>> with zone "UTC", apparently the result of Windows that 
>>>>         
>> was running 
>>     
>>>> on the hardware before...took me longer than I'd like to 
>>>>         
>> admit to notice what was wrong).
>>     
>>>> I'm running Knoppmyth R5D1 (Thanks, Chris!) so I suspect 
>>>>         
>> that it has 
>>     
>>>> all the new TZ rules, but I'm curious how one would do the 
>>>> equivalent of "rpm -q tzdata". I think the timezone files are all 
>>>> kept in /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo, but I'm not sure which 
>>>>         
>> package updates them (maybe tzselect?).
>>     
>>>> Any more experienced Debian users want to clarify?
>>>>         
>>> first run Henry Harper's test to see what you get, if the second 
>>> letter is an S its on standard time, D is daylight savings.
>>> if its a "D" then your good to go, if its an S then update your 
>>> package list (apt-get update) and then install the new tzdata, 
>>> "apt-get install tzdata". This will update your time zone 
>>>       
>> information, 
>>     
>>> and I believe it will reset your timezone as well, so run 
>>>       
>> tzconfig to 
>>     
>>> set your proper time zone again.
>>>
>>>       
>> I'm pretty sure that older debian systems doesn't have a "tzdata".
>> All timezone information is kept in the libc6 package.
>>
>> So an: apt-get update
>> followed by an: apt-get install libc6
>>
>> ...will install new timezone information for older debian systems.
>> Don't ask my what "newer" debian systems take.  All my newer 
>> debian systems are actually ubuntu and I didn't have to 
>> update them for the new DST rules.
>>
>> Matt
>> _______________________________________________
>>     
>
> I am using KnoppMyth R5D1 and the timezone info is incorrect. I also read
> that libc6 contains the tz info but it seems I have the current version (and
> can't figure out how to update the tz info):
>
> I did this to check the tz info:
>
> root at mythtv:~# zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern | grep 2007
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern Sun Apr 1 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1
> 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern Sun Apr 1 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1
> 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern Sun Oct 28 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28
> 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern Sun Oct 28 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28
> 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
>
> I did an apt-get update and then tried to update libc6 and got this:
>
> root at mythtv:~# apt-get install libc6
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> libc6 is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 380 not upgraded.
>
>
>
> Then some more reading suggested there is a "tzdata" package, apt-get can't
> find it:
>
> root at mythtv:~# apt-get install tzdata
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package tzdata
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>   

I use R5D1 as well. I updated it by doing the following:

wget 
http://debian.oregonstate.edu/debian/pool/main/t/tzdata/tzdata_2007a-1_all.deb
dpkg --install tzdata_2007a-1_all.deb

and then test with:

date --date="Mar 11 15:00:00 UTC 2007"

If your system responds with local time in set to daylight time (PDT, 
MDT,CDT,EDT) then you are good to go.

Jon
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20070125/e9f85082/attachment.htm 


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list