Re: [guide-user] Time Change Problem

Bill J Gray Nov 7, 2009

Hi Tom, all,

One small correction: the file 'guide.dat' may, or may not,
have a line that reads

TOFFSET=1

If it _does_ have that line, remove it. If it lacks a TOFFSET
line, insert one.

In some cases, the time error in Windows runs the other way,
and one has to use TOFFSET=-1. In theory, if you had a two-hour
error, you would use TOFFSET=2 (or TOFFSET=-2), and so on. I
don't recall anything but one-hour errors, though.

Guide does _not_ attempt to correct for Daylight "Saving" Time.
It reads the system time. Unfortunately, that's not always
reliable, as you're discovering. There are also some odd one-hour
errors of a sort I've yet to figure out, that don't actually seem
to have anything to do with Daylight "Saving" Time.

There was a known issue with the switch last March. That doesn't
affect the November switchover, though.

-- Bill