[mythtv-users] time zone with distant frontend

Johnny Walker johnnyjboss at gmail.com
Tue Dec 29 17:38:47 UTC 2009


On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:30 AM, mythtv-free <frenchmythtv at free.fr> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I got this message from my mythtv:
>> "Time zone settings on the master backend differ from those on this system.
>> 2009-12-29 18:23:15.291 Detected time zone settings:
>>    Master: Zone ID: 'CET', UTC Offset: '3600', Current Time:
>> '2009-12-29T18:23:15'
>>     Local: Zone ID: 'Europe/Paris', UTC Offset: '3600', Current Time:
>> '2009-12-29T18:23:15'
>>
>> 2009-12-29 18:23:15.291 The time and/or time zone settings on this
>> system do not match those in use on the master backend. Please ensure
>> all frontend and backend systems are configured to use the same time
>> zone and have the current time properly set.
>> 2009-12-29 18:23:15.292 Unable to run with invalid time settings. Exiting.
>> "
>> I think that this time checking is too sensitive! Is it new in 0.22 ?
>>
>
> My feeling is that a pop-up is warranted to at least tell you. In many
> cases you're auto-starting the mythfrontend and all that happens is
> that it crashes back to desktop.
>
> I bet I could figure out enough C to make a dialog box happen. You'd
> still wind up having to connect to keyboard or SSH in to fix it but at
> least the error would be more friendly.
>
blah blah blah - http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Development_guide I'm
reading it now...


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