[mythtv-users] Australian daylight saving time puzzle

[Kevin Hayes]

On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:12:18 +1000
cal <cal at graggrag.com> wrote:

> Matthew Jurgens wrote:
> >  I'm not sure that it was just shepherd and yahoo.
> > My Fedora 8 system correctly followed the new daylight savings schedule 
> > but during that one week, the time shown on all mythweb pages (right at 
> > the top) was the incorrect time. So myth has its own daylight savings 
> > schedule somewhere? It will be interesting to see what happens in 
> > October when daylight savings comes about 3 weeks earlier than last year.
> 
> I'm dead curious about the role of the myth setting, TimeOffset. When dst
> (Melbourne) started last summer, I had to change it +1000 -> +1100 to get
> things sane. Now we're off dst, it has to be +1000. Very weird.
  
If in mythtv-setup for tv_grab_au you set the timezone to auto,(makes
the grabber use your backend timezone) and you can leave the timeoffset 
in channels setup at 0.

-- 
Kevin Hayes <wondecla at tpg.com.au>