I demand that Udo Richter may or may not have written... > Darren Salt wrote: >> There's a programme which starts at 1.10am BST and finishes at 1.10am GMT. >> Trying to set a timer for it works (standard schedule list) *but* the >> timer is only for 12 minutes, not 1h 12m. (Were it a repeating timer, >> would it be triggered twice, one hour apart?) (I should mention that that's 2 minutes before and 10 minutes after.) > What exactly happens probably depends on whether your clock will be updated > to the new time zone automatically, for ex. by epg clock. localtime_r() and friends take care of the conversion, given suitable timezone configuration; which is why VDR showed 1.10 for the start of that programme and 1.10 for the start of the following programme. > In any case it might be a good idea not to use the time between 2am and 3am > as start or stop time for timers. Just record a bit more than needed. Between 1am and 2am, surely ;-) Storing the duration instead of the end time in timers.conf would get rid of half of the problem. VPS may well get rid of it completely, but when I last checked this, it didn't appear to be in use on Freeview. Oh well, at least this particular problem only happens once a year. :-) -- | Darren Salt | d youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | nr. Ashington, | Debian, | s zap,tartarus,org | Northumberland | RISC OS | @ | Toon Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.packages.html> Money is the root of all wealth.
