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. :-)