[mythtv-users] MythFrontend for Windows - Problem with mismatched TimeZone

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/16/2011 04:34 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Dave Pearson wrote:
>> I've just downloaded a MythFrontend binary for Windows from
>> http://members.iinet.net.au/~davco/
>>
>> Unfortunately, when I try to run it, it complains:
>>
>> "Your frontend and backend are configured in different timezones. You
>> must correct this mismatch to continue"
>>
>> My Backend is running on Ubuntu 10.10 and the time is set to Europe/London
>>
>> My Windows Frontend is Windows 7 and the time is set to (UTC) Dublin,
>> Edinburgh, Lisbon, London
>>
>> I'm guessing that I need to set a Timezone environment variable in
>> Windows before I start the frontend, but what is the variable I need to
>> set and what should I set it to so that the timezones match?
> I just hit this same problem myself.  I just got a new laptop for my
> son and it has Windows on it.  I'm not very familiar with Windows
> myself.  All of my real computers have the zone set to "America/New
> York", but I don't see that as an option in Windows.  The closest
> thing I can set it to is "Eastern Time (US&  Canada)".  Is there a
> simple solution for this?
>

Can you guys post some --version information, please?  All of the time 
zone checking is supposed to be disabled for Windows builds since 
Windows doesn't use the same time zone database that the rest of the 
world uses...

Mike