Another Time Setting question

[gideon_friedmann]

I have read the many posts about how to change the TiVo time, but I got very confused. My question is simple. I am in Israel and don't care about the program guide. I just want to set the time to my local time (GMT+2). Is there a simple way to do it (that does not reset after the daily call)?

I did stumble on a text file in the Tivo a while ago, where there was a timezone parameter that I changed from 7 to 8 (OZ tivo image), and this seems to have moved me back one hour. I can't seem to find this file any more. Anybody knows?

Thanks,

Gideon

[thomson]

I did stumble on a text file in the Tivo a while ago, where there was a timezone parameter that I changed from 7 to 8 (OZ tivo image), and this seems to have moved me back one hour. I can't seem to find this file any more. Anybody knows?

You are probably talking about the "timezoneadj30.tcl" script which should be located in the /hack/bin directory. This should be enough to correct the time, but if it is not then you could synchronise from an NTP system with something like the "fixtivotime" script (also located in /hack/bin). You may also like to just try set it at GMT (7) and then just change the time using the "date MMDDhhmm" command (followed by "settime -rtc").

[gideon_friedmann]

Thanks.

No, it was not the timezoneadj30.tcl.
However, I tried to run that. For some reason it does not take the number I put in from the screen (I did a "puts" and the variable is empty. I am using Putty in telnet mode). So I just set the tzNew variable to what I wanted within the script (9 according to the instructions).
This produced a change of one hour for some reason. I tried a couple of other values (e.g. 1), and I got different times. However, the Tivo did its daily call at some point, and all the work was gone. It was back to the original Sydney time.
Here is the output from the fixtivotime program
Our postcode is 02000. Found matching timezone Australia/Sydney
Offset 39600 for timezone EST, daylight saving is 1
Connecting to time server 207.126.98.204
t was 3319700069 from server
t is now 1110750869
Time is 2005-03-13 21:54:29
Time set to: Sun Mar 13 21:54:29 2005
Have a nice day.
Time set to: Sun Mar 13 21:54:30 2005
Have a nice day.

Perhaps there is a simple way to create another timezone file? Or maybe someone made files for every timezone around the globe? Or maybe there is an elegant way to change the offset?
It is so frustrating that such a simple issue is made so complex, and I am wasting hours on it.

Thanks,

Gideon.

[zollymonsta]

Hi Gideon,

Do you have access to a linux box?

If so, you could copy a timezone file for your area off it (if it has one)
and ftp it across to your TiVo.

Then change the timzones file (so that the TiVo uses your timezone file to
set the time).

I did this originally on my TiVO so it would use the 'Auckland' timezone file for New Zealand Time.

Worked perfect.


ZollyMonsta

[thomson]

I am not sure why you are doing a daily call to the emulator as this seems to be what is causing most of your problems? I think you can stop the TiVo using the emulator by commenting out the entry in the tclient.conf? But am not sure of this.

The attached program will allow you to set your time from an NTP system.

There are many ways of executing it. By adding an ‘–s’ it will set both the hardware (CMOS) and the software (O/S) time on the TiVo. If the '-s' option is not used, then it will output the time in a format that is suitable for use by settime (to remain compatable with rtimetz).

Example 1
The following will lookup the postalcode in the database and then lookup your timezone in the /etc/postcodezones file and using that information attempt to find the timezone information by looking in /var/hack/zoneinfo.

# rdate –v  207.126.98.204 129.6.15.28 131.107.1.10
# rdate –vs 207.126.98.204 129.6.15.28 131.107.1.10

Example 2
The following does not require the /etc/postcodezones file as we have specified which timezone to use, it will look in TZDIR for the information files (TZDIR defaults to /var/hack/zoneinfo).

# TZ=Israel rdate –v  207.126.98.204 129.6.15.28
# TZ=Israel rdate –vs 207.126.98.204 129.6.15.28

Example 3
The following tells the application the exact location of the zoneinfo file (take note of the the colon ':'), thus allowing you to place the zoneinfo file where-ever you wish.

# TZ=:/var/hack/zoneinfo/Israel rdate –v  207.126.98.204
# TZ=:/var/hack/zoneinfo/Israel rdate –vs 207.126.98.204

QUICK INSTALLATION FOR ISRAEL USERS

1. Make the rdate program executable

   # chmod 755 rdate

2. Move it into the /var/hack/bin directory

   # mv rdate /var/hack/bin

3. Create a directory to hold the "Israel" zoneinfo file

   # mkdir -p /var/hack/zoneinfo

4. Move the provided "Israel" zoneinfo file into this directory

   # mv Israel /var/hack/zoneinfo

5. Run the command and check that things look okay

   # TZ=Israel rdate –v  207.126.98.204

6. Run the command with the "set" (-s) option to change the date/time

   # TZ=Israel rdate –vs 207.126.98.204

[gideon_friedmann]

Thanks so much for the Israel timezone file !!
I created an Israel directory in the zoneinfo directory and copied the Israel file into it. After that I changed the pointer in the postcodezones for my zip code (02000) to Israel/Israel
This seems to have worked, and survived a daily call.
Of course I don't need the daily calls, but the TiVo keeps nagging quite badly if no calls are made.

For the next release perhaps a generic directory of all 24 timezones should be added to the zoneinfo directory, and all the people who have trouble with the time will just point to the file they want (or a script could do that). Would be much simpler than all the long explanations I read).
Is it easy to create such a file as zollymonsta has hinted (is it available in any standard Linux installation? I have such a CD, which I could start my PC with).
Now of course I have the daylight savings time issue to tackle... Of course I am about the opposite of australia - so right now I am one hour ahead of the real time here, and will be one hour back when the times change (here and in Australia). Any ideas?
I am also willing to just install 2 more timezone files (GMT+3 and GMT+1) in my system and change the pointer to them twice yearly.

Thanks again,

Gideon.