[mythtv-users] timezone problems connecting to remote backend

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 11/06/2010 04:04 PM, Gavin Hurlbut wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Greg Oliver 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.

Actually, it would need to match by offset /for every point in history 
and every point in the future/.  The "current offset" is irrelevant.

The only way to match by offset for every point in all points in time is 
to add code that decompiles (or dumps) your zoneinfo rules and compares 
them.  That's not worth the effort (nor the bandwidth).

Also, Jeff, you're better off using America/New_York than EST5EDT.  On 
some systems EST5EDT is /very/ different (and wrong for someone living 
in the US Eastern time zone).

Mike