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hank wrote:
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From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a>] On Behalf Of Matt
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 1:09 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] US MythTV users: will your
recordings be 1 houroff on March 11th?
On 1/17/07, Steven Adeff <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com"><adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 1/17/07, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mythusers.jtuttle@xoxy.net">mythusers.jtuttle@xoxy.net</a>
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<pre wrap="">Does anyone know how to perform a similar check on a
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<pre wrap="">Debian-based system?
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<pre wrap="">Or more generally, how to check and see what the local timezone
rules are, and what's going to change on what particular dates? I
had a devil of a time getting my local timezone set
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<pre wrap="">initially when I
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<pre wrap="">set up my box (system clock was set to the correct local time but
with zone "UTC", apparently the result of Windows that
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<pre wrap="">on the hardware before...took me longer than I'd like to
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<pre wrap="">admit to notice what was wrong).
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<pre wrap="">I'm running Knoppmyth R5D1 (Thanks, Chris!) so I suspect
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<pre wrap="">all the new TZ rules, but I'm curious how one would do the
equivalent of "rpm -q tzdata". I think the timezone files are all
kept in /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo, but I'm not sure which
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<pre wrap="">Any more experienced Debian users want to clarify?
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first run Henry Harper's test to see what you get, if the second
letter is an S its on standard time, D is daylight savings.
if its a "D" then your good to go, if its an S then update your
package list (apt-get update) and then install the new tzdata,
"apt-get install tzdata". This will update your time zone
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<pre wrap="">and I believe it will reset your timezone as well, so run
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<pre wrap="">tzconfig to
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<pre wrap="">set your proper time zone again.
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<pre wrap="">I'm pretty sure that older debian systems doesn't have a "tzdata".
All timezone information is kept in the libc6 package.
So an: apt-get update
followed by an: apt-get install libc6
...will install new timezone information for older debian systems.
Don't ask my what "newer" debian systems take. All my newer
debian systems are actually ubuntu and I didn't have to
update them for the new DST rules.
Matt
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I am using KnoppMyth R5D1 and the timezone info is incorrect. I also read
that libc6 contains the tz info but it seems I have the current version (and
can't figure out how to update the tz info):
I did this to check the tz info:
root@mythtv:~# zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern | grep 2007
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern Sun Apr 1 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1
01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern Sun Apr 1 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1
03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern Sun Oct 28 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28
01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern Sun Oct 28 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28
01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
I did an apt-get update and then tried to update libc6 and got this:
root@mythtv:~# apt-get install libc6
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
libc6 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 380 not upgraded.
Then some more reading suggested there is a "tzdata" package, apt-get can't
find it:
root@mythtv:~# apt-get install tzdata
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package tzdata
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I use R5D1 as well. I updated it by doing the following:<br>
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wget
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://debian.oregonstate.edu/debian/pool/main/t/tzdata/tzdata_2007a-1_all.deb">http://debian.oregonstate.edu/debian/pool/main/t/tzdata/tzdata_2007a-1_all.deb</a><br>
dpkg --install tzdata_2007a-1_all.deb<br>
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and then test with: <br>
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date --date="Mar 11 15:00:00 UTC 2007"<br>
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If your system responds with local time in set to daylight time (PDT,
MDT,CDT,EDT) then you are good to go.<br>
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Jon
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