[mythtv-users] DST-related guide problem - inserted into db off by one hour

R. G. Newbury newbury at mandamus.org
Tue Mar 11 17:10:42 UTC 2008


Ronald Frazier wrote:
> While we are on the topic of DST, I forgot to mention what I noticed.
> When I checked the guide, it showed a blank hour with no data from 2
> to 3 AM, when in reality there should have been no hour there. Thats
> all well and fine, as long as myth knows how to handle it. However, I
> saw there was a movie airing that ran for 2.5 hours starting at
> midnight. That put it's end time at 2:30AM...a time that didn't
> technically exist. Wondering what would happen, I set it to record. It
> ended up only recording 2 hours of the show. At 2 AM, the time
> instantly jumped to 3AM, so myth figured that was after 2:30AM, so it
> should stop. I never got a chance to pull the data from SD to see if
> it was a myth error or a data error.
> 
> Likewise, I haven't been running a recent version of myth long enough
> to see the fall changeover, but on 0.18 I don't remember seeing the
> repeated hour from 1AM to 2PM that there should have been.
> 

This looks like a bug. You should report it so that it does not get ignored.

Geoff


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