[mythtv-users] Changing System Time

[Isaac Richards]

On Tuesday 05 August 2003 10:55 pm, Christian Hack wrote:
> Since my system's time seems to drift a bit (it's a new Asus MB :( ), I
> have had to update it manually lately since I haven't got around to
> setting up NTP.
>
> When I change my system time using the date command (my machine runs
> fast so it's back in time), while viewing anything (live TV or a
> recording), mythfrontend locks up. The display just stops. Telnet into
> the box and kill and restart mythfrontend no problem. As far as I am
> aware any current recording in the backend process continues along
> happily.
>
> Any ideas why this might occur? Something peculiar to my system or is
> mythfrontend going to get to stroppy at me for changing the time? I'm
> changing it about no more than 2 minutes.

Many things depend on timing during playback.  You can't change it by that 
much and keep things going properly.

Isaac