[mythtv-users] Myth 0.26 Wakes up late

jksj jksj.baker at ntlworld.com
Fri Aug 10 14:01:52 UTC 2012


On 10/08/12 14:52, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> On 08/10/2012 09:09 AM, jksj wrote:
>> First post so be gentle:-) .
>> While testing [v0.26-beta-9-g8c551e6] on Ubunu 12.04, I note that the
>> machine wakes up later than it should to record. I suspect that the
>> recent changes to UTC have not made it into mythshutdown. Mythbackend
>> log shows the following.
>>
>>> Aug 10 10:05:37 tv mythlogserver: mythbackend[1461]: N Scheduler
>>> scheduler.cpp:2947 (ShutdownServer) Running the command to set the
>>> next scheduled wakeup time :-#012#011#011#011#011#011#011sudo
>>> mythshutdown --setwakeup 2012-08-10T11:15:00
>>> Aug 10 10:05:38 tv mythlogserver: mythbackend[1461]: N Scheduler
>>> scheduler.cpp:2974 (ShutdownServer) Running the command to shutdown
>>> this computer :-#012#011#011#011#011#011#011mythshutdown --shutdown
>>> Aug 10 12:16:10 tv mythlogserver: mythbackend[1875]: C thread_unknown
>>> mythcommandlineparser.cpp:2545 (ConfigureLogging) mythbackend version:
>>> master [v0.26-beta-9-g8c551e6] www.mythtv.org
>> The programme was due to start at 11:25 and I have set the backend to
>> wakeup 10 mins prior to program start. Wake up time was correctly set to
>> 11:15 but the backend actually started at 12:16. This mechanism works
>> fine with myth 0.25.
>> Note that this anomaly only affects startup, programs are scheduled at
>> the correct time when the backend is already up.
>>
>> Time zones are set correctly. I am located in the UK.
>>> mysql> SELECT CONVERT_TZ('2012-08-10 12:45', 'GB', 'America/New_York');
>>> +----------------------------------------------------------+
>>> | CONVERT_TZ('2012-08-10 12:45', 'GB', 'America/New_York') |
>>> +----------------------------------------------------------+
>>> | 2012-08-10 07:45:00 |
>>> +----------------------------------------------------------+
>>> 1 row in set (0.10 sec)
>> By the way, I could not get the method stated in the wiki, for importing
>> time zone data, to work. Had to use :-
>>> tv at tv:~$ mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -u root mysql
>
> The time difference is one hour (plus one minute for the reboot), so I 
> would guess it has something to do with daylight savings time settings.
>
> G.
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Yes, I am sure it is due to daylight saving time being 1 hour in front 
of GMT but the whole point of myth moving to UTC was to sort that out.


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