[vdr] Re: summer / wintertime: 24h-recording

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

Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> 
> Am Sonntag, 27. Oktober 2002 20:48 schrieb ext Rene Bartsch:
> > Tell the politicians to skip that useless idea of summer-/wintertime ...
> > It's only wasting energy and confusing computers and filesystems.
> Summer-/Wintertime is just what the user sees (at least on Unix systems), so
> it doesn't confuse computers and filesystems. Every timestamp on a Unix
> system is GMT (aka UTC). Maybe vdr just can't cope with it?

Well, the start and end time in a timer definition is in *local* time.
So VDR has to compare them against the *local* time of the system.
If, when switching DST on/off, the time suddenly gets set back or forward
an hour, that's somewhat hard to get right...

Klaus
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