[mythtv-users] time zone with distant frontend

[Johnny Walker]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> 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?

-JohnnyJboss