[mythtv-users] Timezones and Dual Booting

[Harry Orenstein]

>From: "Gregorio Gervasio, Jr." <gtgj at pacbell.net>
>Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Timezones and Dual Booting
>Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 22:51:58 -0700
>
> >>>>> Harry Orenstein writes:
>
>h> My problem is that I have my hardware clock set up
>h> for local time and when I load listings using the
>h> grabber I get all of the data off my 4 hours (since it is
>h> now DST).  I have forced a --tz-offset -0400 into the
>h> command line used for tv_grab_na_dd to offset this,
>h> but it seems kind of kludgy.
>
>         There is no relationship between the hardware clock and
>tv_grab_na_dd.  The latest version switched to displaying all times in
>UTC by default because it had trouble handling DST and because XMLTV
>is supposed to be moving in that direction anyway.  There was
>discussion on xmltv-devel about this.  I think the author is
>investigating a way to make it display local times correctly but until
>then, you have to convert to local time yourself.
>
>         Anyway, someone is also working on MythTV changes to allow it
>to read the DataDirect listings without going through XMLTV.
>--
>Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.
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Thanks for the info Gregorio (and all others who replied).

I suspected that it wasn't just me so far as the listings were
concerned.  As for the clock setting, I guess I'll stick with
local time for now.  Either way I'll have to make some
adjustment when we change over to standard time again,
but I think 6 months ought to give me enough time to
see where XMLTV and a possible Myth grabber wind up.

I was aware of some of the XMLTV discussions, but I
haven't really been keeping up.  I just tried reading the
update blurbs in CVS.

Does anyone know if the idea of keeping listings in UTC
in Myth has ever been discussed?  It seems like it might
have some advantages (at least twice a year).  I cannot
see how you would record currently something that's
on at 2am during the changeover to standard time
(there would be 2 programs in the listings for each
channel?).  I think Zap2It converts on the fly for display
and if anyone looked at the listings on their web site for
4/4 it showed listings that skipped 2am.  I assume that
listings for the change to standard time on Zap2It will
show 2 slots for 2am listings.


-- Harry O.

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