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

[belcampo]

Yan Seiner wrote:
> On Mon, October 26, 2009 3:37 pm, raptor jr wrote:
>>> Not in the US, it didn't...if you're somewhere else, you probably
>>> should've specified it, as your email address doesn't say.
>>
>>
>> Does it matter where i live? Or do you think that i'm lying about that DST
>> occured in my country? In every country in Europe(besides Iceland) DST
>> occur the last sunday of october and it been like that for the last 13
>> years. So no definition or anything has changed. The only thing that
>> changed was the time.
> 
> Well, to get this past the nationality flame war, I would suggest that
> where you live (or at least what your DST policies are) is as relevant as
> what what distro you're using.  The broken recording could be due to bad
> timezone implementation for your area, a screwed up update from your
> disto, etc.
> 
> Plus other users in your time zone could chime in with whether or not they
> are seeing the same issue, helping diagnose the problem.
> 
> Anyway, let's move on.
> 
I seem to remember that I saw this Sunday that ntp changed settings NOT 
at 3:00 AM but about noon. It looks like several ntp-servers relied on 
each other where the dominant one failed to do it right.

My memory served me well, according to /var/log/messages

Oct 25 12:29:45 mm ntpd[3360]: synchronized to 91.121.103.138, stratum 3
Oct 25 12:32:59 mm ntpd[3360]: synchronized to 213.9.73.106, stratum 2
Oct 25 12:36:18 mm ntpd[3360]: synchronized to 141.40.103.103, stratum 2
Oct 25 12:42:45 mm ntpd[3360]: synchronized to 213.9.73.106, stratum 2
Oct 25 11:43:46 mm ntpd[3360]: time reset -3600.912511 s
Oct 25 11:47:33 mm ntpd[3360]: synchronized to 213.9.73.106, stratum 2
Oct 25 12:52:08 mm ntpd[3360]: synchronized to 141.40.103.103, stratum 2
Oct 25 13:15:50 mm ntpd[3360]: synchronized to 213.9.73.106, stratum 2