[mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase 1hr time offset after 0.21 upgrade

[David Greaves]

btsglw wrote:
> On 10/05/2008, David Greaves <myth at dgreaves.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>  Previously XMLTV grabs have worked fine - after a delayed upgrade to 0.21 last
>>  week the listing data is now out by an hour.
>>
> -- snip --
>>  I think the system clock is localtime (since UTC=no in /etc/default/rcS)
>>
>>  OS level date is fine. Myth starts to record at the right time - it just has the
>>  wrong time in the program table.
>>
>>
>>  In mythtv-setup I've got the 'local timezone' set to auto.
>>
>>  Any suggestions?
>>
>>  David
>>  PS I've found countless difficulties wrt timezone out there from the early days
>>  of myth up to relatively recent trac entries but no clear answer
> 
> I found that setting my system clock (and the bios) to UTC  solved the
> problem for me.  Leaving it set to localtime always gave me problems
> with mythfilldatabase.  I used
> 
> hwclock --utc --set --date="9/22/96 16:45:05"
> 
> Obviously you should use the current date/time in that command (I
> copied that straight from the man page).  Also, according to the man
> page, the date/time argument has to be in local time.

Thanks - I'm compiling Myth now to see why it does this.
I'll investigate the UTC thing too.
(UTC systemtime will obviously cause an interaction with automatic wakeup though).

David