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

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

On Sunday 26 October 2003 11:40, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Oliver Endriss wrote:
> > 
> > On Sunday 26 October 2003 00:22, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > > Oliver Endriss wrote:
> > > > 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?
> > >
> > > I want timers.conf to be human readable, and that means times will
> > > stay in local time.
> > 
> > Ok, in this case you have to append some timezone info to the times
> > in timers.conf, for example '0215CET'. Otherwise you will never know
> > whether 02:15 means 02:15 CET or 02:15 CEST. :-(
> 
> Well, I don't think that this is worth all that fuss...
> After all, this is something that happens only once a year,
> and what are the odds that somebody would want to record
> something just within that "magic hour"? Even if so, simply
> start the recording early enough and let it run long enough.
> As we have seen (again) this year, the times provided by
> several tv stations are wrong, anyway, when dst is switched...

Yep, EPG on ARD is still one hour off.
Seems to be very difficult to transmit EPG times in UTC. ;-)

> The current solution works for 99.99% of the time, which I'd
> say is good enough.

Ok, let's discuss this again: next year, same date, same time. ;-)

Oliver


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