[mythtv-users] Myth can't handle daylight time saving?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/25/2009 06:18 AM, raptor jr wrote:
> So today daylight time saving occured. I wanted to record a show when 
> it happend. According to the guide data the show started 01.25 and 
> ended 02.25. But that was because 03.00 the clock is turned back to 
> 02.00. So the show was actually 2 hours, not 1. Not knowing if Myth 
> was able to handle this situation i added 65 minutes to be recorded 
> after the ending of the show.
>  
> Well, that didn't help at all. Looking in the log the show started 
> 01.25 and ended 02.00(which would be 03.00?). Anyway, when watching 
> today Myth only had recorded 1.35, and i missed the last 25 minutes.
>  
> Dont really know why since i added 65 minutes at the end of the 
> recording, all i know is that i didn't got the whole show. Luckily 
> this only happends 2 times a year, but still, those two times could be 
> frustrating.

(but only to people who want to record something in the 2-hrs of 
ambiguous time which, in the US, is at a time when virtually nothing 
interesting is on)

> Should i have done it some other way to avoid this problem?

Myth stores all recording times in the database in local time.

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5853

Do you still have the backend logs from the time?

Mike