Something to be aware of if you're setting timers which cover the two hours between 1am and 2am tomorrow...
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?)
There's another programme which starts at 1.10am GMT and finishes at 2am GMT. This appears to be unrecordable without waiting until after the changeover, at least when using a one-shot timer...
BTW, I should point out that I'm not actually planning to record these. :-)
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?)
What exactly happens probably depends on whether your clock will be updated to the new time zone automatically, for ex. by epg clock.
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.
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Udo
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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. :-)
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