On a dual boot system (mine here with Win-XP & Gentoo) there is a problem if mythbackend starts before NTP, and the clock has been reset by Windows Windows sets the HWclock to be local time, Linux sets the HWclock to GMT, mythbackend starts up with time set to local, knows the clock is running GMT and changes accordingly, if a program is then supposed to be recording, it begins recording until the end time appears, the clock then gets changed to GMT and myth is still waiting for end time, several hours later (possibly be different the -ve time offset) myth comes to shutoff time and stops recording Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Mythbackend 2. Install NTPd 3. rc-update add ntpd (and mythbackend) same runlevel 4. restart system and change time Actual Results: mythbackend comes alive and starts recording due to time not correctly setup (changed by MS-Winows) NTP changes time to what it should be, myth continues to record for the next few hours, in 1 case here, for the next 6 hours until that channels end time came. Expected Results: in /etc/init.d/mythbackend add the following.... depend () { need ntpd <- this line so NTPd starts BEFORE myth need ..... } But this addition should only be included if ntp is included in the use flags, if not, then someone setting up a PVR with Gentoo and no Internet link, then NTP will not be either installed or will not work... The workaround I did was to add the line above (Expected results) and now mythbackend starts after ntp sets the time
No, it won
No, it won´t work. NTPd won´t even adjust your clock b/c it´s really wrong (several hours difference), ntpclient could do this but it is an incorrect solution (just watch the time leaps in your syslog and consider the other consequences). Also, ntpd won´t actually work correctly under these circumstances (it´s time adjustment mechanism is not designed for this). Configure Linux and hardware clock to use local time instead of UTC when dual-booting Windows.
Hah, Jakub beat me to it. Another point to remember is other ntp daemons will actually try to catch if you force them to. They however won't do it instantaneously. They like to have a couple of sources that they trust. Which takes time. And there's no way to make sure they are done setting the time before mythtv starts. I think this is a problem you need to fix some other way locally.
