[mythtv-users] timezone problems connecting to remote backend

Gavin Hurlbut gjhurlbu at gmail.com
Sat Nov 6 20:04:31 UTC 2010


On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just link /etc/localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT on both
> machines..  The time will stay the same..  It is kinda strange that
> mythtv thinks they do not match though - the offset is obviously
> right..

Not strange at all.  They don't match.  The matching is done by name,
not by offset.  We may look into making it go by offset at some point,
but the trick is, make the timezone *names* match.


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