**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Sat Apr 05 02:59:57 2008
Apr 05 03:03:36 <tonymy01> i am trying to get my head around the best way to set time now
Apr 05 03:03:38 <tonymy01> for the toppy
Apr 05 03:04:14 <tonymy01> i have got the timezone zoneinfo library working, i can express frontpanel time or the broadcaster time in mutiple timezones, but don't know the best way to tackle it, it is doing my head in
Apr 05 03:08:00 <Matty__H> the changes in dst to this weekend made my monday a bit busy
Apr 05 03:08:44 <tonymy01> hehe
Apr 05 03:09:17 <Matty__H> I must admit - it took me a bit of stuffing around on the toppy to get that right
Apr 05 03:09:37 <tonymy01> i want to ditch all the pbk and gmt offset etc options
Apr 05 03:09:38 <Matty__H> I ended up setting epg_uploader to TAP and then setting the GMT
Apr 05 03:09:53 <tonymy01> so it just relies on the zoneinfo tables
Apr 05 03:10:13 <Matty__H> and hopefully they wont change again anytime soon
Apr 05 03:10:32 <tonymy01> doesn't matter, the zoneinfo tables can be updated simply by uploading to the toppy
Apr 05 03:10:41 <tonymy01> no recoding of my tap at all
Apr 05 03:11:41 <tonymy01> ok, i think the strategy will be:
Apr 05 03:11:49 <tonymy01> 1.  get the broadcaster GMT time
Apr 05 03:12:02 <tonymy01> 2. make it localtime compat
Apr 05 03:12:17 <tonymy01> 3. get the front panel time, make it localtime compat
Apr 05 03:12:40 <tonymy01> 4. set the time only if the difference is less than 7mins
Apr 05 03:12:52 <tonymy01> but the 5 is the tricky one.... or if the delta is 60mins
Apr 05 03:13:15 <tonymy01> but in some regions, the dst offset delta is only 30mins...
Apr 05 03:13:23 <tonymy01> believe it or not
Apr 05 03:13:35 <Matty__H> I didn't know that
Apr 05 03:13:35 <tonymy01> so will require a tiny bit of finess to get it right still
Apr 05 03:13:47 <tonymy01> hey, are you connected by USB directly?
Apr 05 03:13:55 <tonymy01> or via a slug/icebox?
Apr 05 03:13:56 <Matty__H> can it be a range of >30
Apr 05 03:13:58 <Matty__H> to 60
Apr 05 03:14:23 <Matty__H> I have an old nb running DSL with ftpd-topfield
Apr 05 03:14:38 <Matty__H> but I have access to three other slugs (via VPNs)
Apr 05 03:14:44 <tonymy01> i wonder if altair will let you see a folder called zoneinfo in the root folder, and let you upload folders
Apr 05 03:14:51 <tonymy01> ftp is fine
Apr 05 03:15:20 <tonymy01> cause not much point in launching this if people can't get the timezone files into the toppy easily
Apr 05 03:15:20 <Matty__H> I can prob check
Apr 05 03:15:28 <tonymy01> i don't have a pc near the toppy
Apr 05 03:15:47 <Matty__H> this notebook has vmware server on it and XP, but I haven't tried altair via the USB
Apr 05 03:15:48 <tonymy01> or maybe i should hang it all off programfiles?
Apr 05 03:16:05 <Matty__H> why does it have to be in the root?
Apr 05 03:16:10 <tonymy01> for the beta, i may leave it at /zoneinfo
Apr 05 03:16:19 <tonymy01> but ponder programfiles later
Apr 05 03:16:29 <tonymy01> or should i say /ProgramFiles/zoneinfo
Apr 05 03:16:53 <Matty__H> I think that would be the safer place
Apr 05 03:17:02 <Matty__H> people back that up when they format drives etc...
Apr 05 03:18:42 <Matty__H> altair doesn't req sp2 for xp does it?
Apr 05 03:18:54 <tonymy01> no
Apr 05 03:19:33 <Matty__H> I've never tried to use the usb on an xp vm on a ubuntu host - so could be interesting
Apr 05 03:30:48 <tonymy01> don't worry about it, i put it in programfiles with no dramas
Apr 05 03:31:21 <Matty__H> k
Apr 05 03:32:55 <tonymy01> ok, now to rip out my old code and fix it
Apr 05 03:32:58 <Matty__H> lol - it's giving me bsod anyway
Apr 05 03:33:06 <tonymy01> bugger, i should be starting to pack :-)
Apr 05 03:39:05 <Matty__H> let me know if you need someone to test it
Apr 05 03:39:37 <tonymy01> i have been promising this thing for 6months, and looking at it seriously for the past 3 weeks
Apr 05 03:40:12 <tonymy01> and had some largish hurdles getting the localtime code compiled in the Toppy compiler
Apr 05 03:40:21 <tonymy01> and finally 3 days ago worked out one of the probs
Apr 05 03:59:06 <Matty__H> it's a buzz when you solve a prob like that isn't it
Apr 05 03:59:12 <Matty__H> have fun on your trip
Apr 05 04:01:02 <tonymy01> thanks
Apr 05 10:40:05 <Matty__H> quit
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