[mythtv-users] Changing System Time

[Christian Hack]

> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Isaac Richards
> Sent: Wednesday, 6 August 2003 1:03 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Changing System Time
> 
> 
> 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.
> 

OK fair enough, so what sort of time would be the maximum I can change?
I can easily set something up to slide the time slowly OR make sure the
time is constantly updated so it doesn't have to be changed by so much.
If I can work out roughly how fast it runs, I can then adjust for that
to keep it a lot closer.

Currently I only have dialup, so setting up ntp in a cron job isn't all
that feasible.

CH