[mythtv-users] Time change causes problems

[Michael Haan]

On Apr 3, 2005 7:02 PM, Preston Crow <pc-mythtv05 at crowcastle.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 14:35, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> > Okay.  I think I know for sure what the exact problem is.  We count the
> > number of seconds from Jan 1, 1970 to the GMT time of the program.
> > Since QT fixed their secsTo bug, they're now taking into account the
> > time zone.  That means that when the GMT time of a show is after the
> > daylight savings time transition, our number of seconds to the start of
> > the program is off by an hour.
> 
> So as mentioned in another post, you can set your timezone to be one
> that doesn't use daylight savings time, restart your backend, and you're
> all set until fall.
> 
> I'm running Gentoo, so I did:
> ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Virgin /etc/localtime
> If you're in EDT, the Virgin Islands use AST, and don't do DST, so
> they're the same during the summer.  (i.e., Atlantic Standard Time and
> Eastern Daylight Time are the same, and tropical areas tend not to use
> Daylight Savings Time, as is the case with the one I selected.)
> 
> --PC
> 
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> 
I'm also on Gentoo, so I tried just rolling back to the old version of
QT (3.3.3).  However, this doesn't seem to have fixed the problem.  Do
I need to do something more?