[vdr] Re: this weekend must be daylight savings in the US

[Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>]

On Wednesday 22 October 2003 16:56, Jaakko Hyvätti wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Hermann Gausterer wrote:
> > does it work for this year only or is this a permanent solution?
> > (for every year that is comming)
> 
>   This works always, even if daylight saving some year was defined to be
> 93 minutes and changed every week back and forth, as long as your computer
> has the correct timezone definitions updated. :-)
> 
>   I mean it should work :-)

IMHO vdr needs to be modified in a way that all times are based on UTC,
not local time. All internal calculations *and* timers.conf should be
UTC-based. Local time should only appear at the user interface.
Maybe this could be done in 1.3.x?

Of course this will only help if TV stations manage to produce correct
EPG info. Everyone should double-check all timers tonight!

For example, the RTL dumm^Wgurus transmit the following EPG info:
26.10. 02:51  Bezaubernde Dschinni! ACHTUNG! Korrekte Sendezeit ist 02:15 !
26.10. 02:53  Pentagramm - Die Macht des Bösen ACHTUNG! Korrekte Sendezeit ist 02:35 !

ROTFL

Oliver


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