[mythtv-users] MythWeb Timezone

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/06/2014 01:36 PM, Greg Thompson wrote:
>
> On Apr 6, 2014, at 11:39 AM, Greg Thompson  wrote:
>
>> I had myth web running great, today I did a sudo apt-get update 
>> followed by sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. Upon reboot I synced my time 
>> to an NTP source and noticed that my /etc/timezone link was 
>> incorrect. I reconfigured it and all looked ok. However myth web is 
>> still showing the wrong time.
>>
>> If I run the API to get the TZ and Time from MythBackend it looks good:
>> <TimeZoneInfo xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="1.0" serializerVersion="1.1">
>> <TimeZoneID>America/New_York</TimeZoneID>
>> <UTCOffset>-14400</UTCOffset>
>> <CurrentDateTime>2014-04-06T15:34:57Z</CurrentDateTime>
>> </TimeZoneInfo>
>>
>> However Mythweb is showing the time as 5 hours behind my actual time.
>> mtyhweb time shows 06:38 AM
>>
>> Date on the server shows
>> date
>> Sun Apr  6 11:38:44 EDT 2014
>>
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>> Greg
>
> I figured it out. I had to truncate the mythweb_sessions table so that 
> it started a new session.
>

IIRC, MythWeb will re-check the time zone once per day, so it would pick 
up the right time the next day.

Mike