uart Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 (edited) Hi all. My location is Newcastle NSW and I watch TV through my computer with a Leadtek Winfast DTV1000T card. I always have heaps of trouble with the program information (EPG etc) when we change to/from daylight savings time. I think it's worse now that we're changing to daylight saving time earlier so that the computer doesn't know it's daylight saving time. Ever since I manually adjusted the clock on the computer one hour forward for daylight savings all my program info has been out by an hour. For example in the EPG it will tell me that the "7.30 Report" starts at 18.30 (6.30pm) etc. It's driving me nuts, does anyone have any ideas or do I just have to wait it out until Windows (XP) evenutally decided that it really is Eastern summer time? Thanks in advance for any info. Edited October 15, 2008 by uart
digitalj Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 try going into options for the DTV Card, is there an option in there for DLS on/off? or something like that?
uart Posted October 15, 2008 Author Posted October 15, 2008 Hi dj and thanks for the reply. Yeah I'd already look all through the software settings but couldn't find anything. Anyway I've been furiously searching for the solution since I posted this message and I think I've just cracked it. At last I understand the root cause of what's happening. It seems that the problems is because the time on my clock (while correct for DLS time) is still actually incorrect for my current time zone (because Windows still thinks it's Eastern Standard time instead of Eastern Daylight Savings Time). In other words it's the mismatch between my clock setting and my time-zone setting that's confusing the heck out of it. Note that this mismatch occurred when daylight savings rolled around and windows didn't automatically adjust the clock so I had to set it forward manually. If windows had the correct DSL schedule in it's database then it would have corrected for DLS automatically and I believe I'd not be in this trouble. I just found a really quick and dirty fix is to just set my Time Zone to Solomon Is (GMT +11) and that fixes it perfectly. I'm now just reading up on the registry settings to correct the time zone database in Windows so that it can properly change the timezone to Eastern DLT for me so I can avoid the dirty fix in the future. I'll post an update when I get it sorted.
Guest iann Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Note that this mismatch occurred when daylight savings rolled around and windows didn't automatically adjust the clock so I had to set it forward manually. If windows had the correct DSL schedule in it's database then it would have corrected for DLS automatically and I believe I'd not be in this trouble. Is your PC set to automatically download XP updates, if so it should have installed the new daylight saving shedule and automatically adjusted the clock on the first Sunday in October instead of the last Sunday in October.
uart Posted October 16, 2008 Author Posted October 16, 2008 Is your PC set to automatically download XP updates, if so it should have installed the new daylight saving shedule and automatically adjusted the clock on the first Sunday in October instead of the last Sunday in October. Yeah the computer is not internet connected. It's networked to another computer that is internet connected but I've chosen not to let it share the connection. I like it this way because it doesn't need antivirus or security updates etc, so it's alway running lean and mean. Anyway I was going to just manually d/l the relevent update and apply to to this machine but in the end I made my tiny own reg file update from info on microsofts site. I merged the following reg file and now the dls shedule is fully up to date and my program guides back in sync. . Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones\AUS Eastern Standard Time] "Display"="(GMT+10:00) Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney" "Dlt"="AUS Eastern Daylight Time" "Std"="AUS Eastern Standard Time" "MapID"="20,21" "Index"=dword:000000ff "TZI"=hex:a8,fd,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,c4,ff,ff,ff,00,00,04,00,00,00,01,00,03,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,0a,00,00,00,01,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
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