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

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 00:51:12 UTC 2009


On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:45 PM, belcampo <belcampo at zonnet.nl> wrote:
> 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


I thought that ntp dealt in UTC not localtime, and of course UTC does
not change with the seasons.


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