[mythtv-users] New DST wrong even with TZ patches

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/01/2007 05:56 PM, Brian Foddy wrote:
> To my surprise I find all the schedules are 1 hour off starting Sunday
> March 11 throught the 14th.  But I did load a new timezone package a few days
> ago, before March 11 came into the schedule window.  
> A zdump -v US/Central verifies I have the new rules loaded on the
> backend server:
> US/Central  Sun Oct 29 06:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29 01:59:59 2006 CDT 
> isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
> US/Central  Sun Oct 29 07:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29 01:00:00 2006 CST 
> isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
> US/Central  Sun Mar 11 07:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 CST 
> isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
> US/Central  Sun Mar 11 08:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 CDT 
> isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
> US/Central  Sun Nov  4 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59 2007 CDT 
> isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
> US/Central  Sun Nov  4 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2007 CST 
> isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
>
>
> So are the Zap2it listings wrong, or is there another update somewhere 
> I have to make?  I've never had DST problems in the past.

Myth stores the time in local time, so on the 11th your system will 
switch to DST and Myth will schedule appropriately.

Mike