[mythtv-users] time zone with distant frontend

[Johnny Walker]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Michael T. Dean
>> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>>> On 01/23/2010 06:45 PM, Johnny Walker wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 12/29/2009 12:34 PM, Johnny Walker wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:30 AM, mythtv-free wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>> It doesn't crash.  It does exit.  It also explains why it's doing so in the
>>>>> log messages that are quoted above
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>> That would be appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>> I've finally found time enough to get cracking on this and it's almost
>>>> working. Is there a preference of using MythDialogBox over
>>>> MythPopupBox since the former is libmythui which, I believe, is the
>>>> direction new code is supposed to be moving, or does it matter much?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Things are going the MythUI way and new non-mythui stuff is no longer
>>> being accepted, so you do want to go the mythui way...  I can't tell you
>>> for sure which is that way, though--you seem to know that better than I.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>> I have a friendlier error message using MythConfirmationDialog working
>> now for the .22 fixes branch. How do I go about submitting it? Create
>> a ticket for it?
>>
>> -JohnnyJboss
>>
> Here's the ticket with a diff attached to it.
>
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/attachment/ticket/8004/
>

And here is the same change for Trunk

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/8013

-JohnnyJboss