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

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Mar 11 17:41:43 UTC 2008


On 03/11/2008 01:10 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> 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.
>   

It will end up exactly like this one:

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1555

unless you include a patch.

Mike


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