[mythtv-users] US MythTV users: will your recordings be 1 hour off on March 11th?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Tue Jan 16 23:28:14 UTC 2007


On Jan 16, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Grant McChesney wrote:

>
> There's a way to test if you have the latest tzdata with the date
> command.  For example, I live in Mountain Standard Time.  After DST
> starts on Mar 11, Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) should be -6 GMT:
>
> Before DST:
> [grant at grant ~]$ date --date="Mar 10 15:00:00 UTC 2007"
> Sat Mar 10 08:00:00 MST 2007
>
> After DST:
> [grant at grant ~]$ date --date="Mar 11 15:00:00 UTC 2007"
> Sun Mar 11 09:00:00 MDT 2007

But is there a way to test this *before* the changeover? After the  
fact is a bit late.

I'm also in the Mountain zone BTW (Cheyenne).


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