DST Daylight Savings Time change on Series 1 AND Series 2

Bill Kearney [email protected] wrote:


This is how Unix systems
(in particular) handle time

That's not entirely correct. It's how SOME posix-type machines handle time,
but not all. It's perfectly fine for a box to use it's own local time as
it's hardware time and a great many do.

If the hardware clock is local then at boot time the kernel "corrects"
and sets it's own software clock to UTC. The kernel still runs in UTC.
When the machine is shutdown it re-converts to localtime to store back
on the hardware clock.

Basically, except at boot/shutdown time the hardware clock timezone is
irrelevant.

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Howard shaped the electrons to say:
Notice of what, exactly? The everything you've told it to record is going to
record?

Unless you're just one of those people who explicitly seeks out something to
whine about, this is the biggest non-issue ever.

Unless you have a Ssries1 with any manual recordings, then you have to
correct them. It could suck if you're on a trip and didn't fix them
before you left.

-MZ
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MegaZone wrote:

Howard shaped the electrons to say:

Notice of what, exactly? The everything you've told it to record is going to
record?

Unless you're just one of those people who explicitly seeks out something to
whine about, this is the biggest non-issue ever.


Unless you have a Series1 with any manual recordings, then you have to
correct them. It could suck if you're on a trip and didn't fix them
before you left.



Yes, other than a couple of a few manual recordings it was much less
of a problem than I had thought it might be. Although it's very
annoying to see that the 11:00 O'Clock news is scheduled for 10:00 PM!
(All program data is on standard time until April). We often use
the "pick programs to record" just to find out when or whether
something will be on. Now if it says that The Big Game will be on a
week from Thursday at 8, we have to KNOW that it will really be on at
9 ...

I still feel that it's poor business practice for Tivo not to have
downloaded what should have been a minimal software upgrade, even for
older equipment.

Even Microsoft, while not providing an automatic update for older
operating systems, did post information on how to fix it yourself (not
appropriate for Tivo, but at least the thought was there).

Bill Kearney wrote:
This is how Unix systems
(in particular) handle time

That's not entirely correct. It's how SOME posix-type machines handle time,
but not all. It's perfectly fine for a box to use it's own local time as
it's hardware time and a great many do.

It is correct.

You're thinking about the hardware clock.
Bill's talking about the software clock.

Agreed, many x86 machines use localtime for the battery-backed CMOS clock,
but Unix/Linux/etc use GMT internally while running.
-Joe