[linux-dvb] Re: Wrong time in VDR

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Ulrich Gierschner wrote:
> 
> Am Fre, 09 Mär 2001 schrieben Sie:
> > Ulrich Gierschner wrote:
> > >
> > > But this way, you can only take the time from Satellite within the
> > > daylight-saving periode (?!), because a few weeks GMT and CET are equal to each
> > > other. (If i remember correctly to the analogue SkyOne teletext clock ......)
> >
> > AFAIK the time provided by the data stream should always be UTC.
> 
> Hmm ... and how do you change this, if you live in another timezone than CET ?
> (It seems that the VDR is "locked" to CET generated out of the UTC  ?)

VDR takes the GMT based time from the data stream and calls stime() to set
the system time. I assume that this only works correctly if your BIOS clock
runs on GMT (*NOT* local time, as shown on the wall clock). It is generally
best to have the BIOS clock run on GMT.

Klaus
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