wait, what?

[cellio]

To get my TiVo to shift out of DST I reboot it? Is that what I did last time and I managed to forget? There's no way to manually set the time, and apparently no less-invasive way to ask whomever it asks about the time to go do that. Weird.

Lately I've been having to reboot the TiVo once or twice a week to get it to stop losing part of the signal (sometimes it freezes video; other times it drops sound). So I guess I would have noticed this before too much longer. I don't know what the reduction in reliable uptime means -- aging hardware, dropped support for older models, gremlins, or what. But now I can stop adding an hour to recordings because of clock error, which is handy.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/merle_/]

Is yours pre-series-2? Mine dealt with it just fine, and mine is quite ancient. Admittedly I did have to reboot it on Saturday because the suggestions folder with its 8 items had 22 when you opened it, most of which were "BAD ITEM DATA", and the reboot took a long time. Maybe there was a system upgrade.

[cellio]

It's a series 1 -- meaning just a TiVo, because until there's a second edition you don't label the first edition. :-) It hasn't gotten any software updates in ages, but the wiring is still there to try to fetch them, so if it can't phone home every couple weeks it shuts down.

[dsrtao]

Networked TiVos use NTP like any other sensible device, but I'm surprised they didn't put the tz files on the S1.

I wonder if forcing a dialup would do it.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Our pre-series 2 TiVo always managed to update the clock correctly, for what it's worth.

[dragonazure.livejournal.com]

We have an old TiVo we aren't using. I'll check whether it is a Series 2. If it is, let me know if you want it.