[mythtv-users] time zone with distant frontend

[Johnny Walker]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 01/23/2010 06:45 PM, Johnny Walker wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/29/2009 12:34 PM, Johnny Walker wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:30 AM, mythtv-free wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I got this message from my mythtv:
>>>>> "Time zone settings on the master backend differ from those on this
>>>>> system.
>>>>> 2009-12-29 18:23:15.291 Detected time zone settings:
>>>>>   Master: Zone ID: 'CET', UTC Offset: '3600', Current Time:
>>>>> '2009-12-29T18:23:15'
>>>>>    Local: Zone ID: 'Europe/Paris', UTC Offset: '3600', Current Time:
>>>>> '2009-12-29T18:23:15'
>>>>>
>>>>> 2009-12-29 18:23:15.291 The time and/or time zone settings on this
>>>>> system do not match those in use on the master backend. Please ensure
>>>>> all frontend and backend systems are configured to use the same time
>>>>> zone and have the current time properly set.
>>>>> 2009-12-29 18:23:15.292 Unable to run with invalid time settings.
>>>>> Exiting.
>>>>> "
>>>>> I think that this time checking is too sensitive! Is it new in 0.22 ?
>>>>>
>>>> My feeling is that a pop-up is warranted to at least tell you. In many
>>>> cases you're auto-starting the mythfrontend and all that happens is
>>>> that it crashes back to desktop.
>>>>
>>> It doesn't crash.  It does exit.  It also explains why it's doing so in the
>>> log messages that are quoted above
>>>> I bet I could figure out enough C to make a dialog box happen. You'd
>>>> still wind up having to connect to keyboard or SSH in to fix it but at
>>>> least the error would be more friendly.
>>>>
>>> That would be appreciated.
>>>
>> I've finally found time enough to get cracking on this and it's almost
>> working. Is there a preference of using MythDialogBox over
>> MythPopupBox since the former is libmythui which, I believe, is the
>> direction new code is supposed to be moving, or does it matter much?
>>
>
> Things are going the MythUI way and new non-mythui stuff is no longer
> being accepted, so you do want to go the mythui way...  I can't tell you
> for sure which is that way, though--you seem to know that better than I.
>
> Mike
>
I have a friendlier error message using MythConfirmationDialog working
now for the .22 fixes branch. How do I go about submitting it? Create
a ticket for it?

-JohnnyJboss