[mythtv-users] Time Zone settings on OS X frontend break connection to Linux backend

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Sun Nov 16 18:53:40 UTC 2008


On Nov 16, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> On 11/16/2008 09:22 AM, David Snider wrote:
>> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>>
>>> On Nov 15, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>
>>>> No thanks.  http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5872 should fix  
>>>> it.  If
>>>> not, please let me know (as that would mean that Mac OS X has an
>>>> incomplete zoneinfo DB, which would be /very/ disappointing and I'd
>>>> hate
>>>> to have to call up Steve).
>>> Thanks. Maybe I can get David to apply the patch to his builds so I
>>> don't have to get up a dev environment on my machines. <hint, hint>
>> It looks like this may have already made it into, can somebody  
>> confirm?
>>
>
> No.  It's not in trunk, yet.  There was a typo in a commit message  
> which
> accidentally closed #5872 instead of #5871.
>
>> If so, it'll be in the next SVN build.   If you need something now
>> however, I'd be glad to build you a custom build with the patch
>> applied.  Let me know if you want SVN, -fixes, and what rev.
>
> I leave that up to you all, but setting a TZ environment variable will
> always work, so even without the patch, it's easy enough to make  
> things
> work properly.  For example:
>
> export TZ='America/Los_Angeles'
> mythfrontend

This works just fine until the patch makes it into trunk.



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