DVR Timers - Reaction to Time Change

**eacalhoun** · 03-13-2010 05:22 PM

How will DVR timers react to tonight's time change to Daylight Saving Time, which occurs at 2am? How will the following "behave"?

I set a timer for a 2-hour movie which starts at 1am?

A timer set for anything at any length at 2am?

Thanks,
Eric

**cditty** · 03-13-2010 05:54 PM

They will all be okay after the download tonight... At least, they usually are.

I would extend the timer of the movie by an hour just in case and change your update time to around 5am, so you make sure to get the correct time & guide info.

**MikeD-C05** · 03-13-2010 07:16 PM

Timers are all tied to the show itself, not the time, so time change won't matter at all.

**priester68** · 03-13-2010 07:27 PM

How can you tell when your receiver got an update? Is there somewhere to look in the menu or settings?

**kstuart** · 03-13-2010 08:37 PM

Originally Posted by priester68

How can you tell when your receiver got an update? Is there somewhere to look in the menu or settings?

He did not say an "update", he said "download", meaning the daily download of the Program Guide.

If tomorrow you have Guide information for Monday evening, then your receiver successfully received the daily download of the Program Guide.

**priester68** · 03-13-2010 11:24 PM

oh ok. Read it wrong. my bad.

**Yes616** · 03-13-2010 11:33 PM

It looks worrysome to me that there are programs listed at 2 and 2:30AM. If it went from 1:30AM then 3:00AM instead of 2:00AM, it would be much easier to digest. But there are shows in there. What happens to all of that?

The reverse is true in the fall but I never had to record anything right at that time. Here you would think stuff just got crushed right out. OUCH.

**Pepper** · 03-14-2010 01:51 AM

If you look closely, everything after 3am in the guide is "an hour off of when it should be" but this will magically correct itself when the box jumps an hour ahead.

**Doppy** · 03-14-2010 03:09 AM

I had something recording from 1 AM to 2 AM and then something else scheduled to start at 2 AM. I also had the guide open when it turned 2 AM. I saw the time in the guide change to 3 AM, the receiver made a spinning noise and I was frozen in the guide, though the program I had on was still running like normal. I had to reboot.

**Koilvr** · 03-14-2010 12:09 PM

I recorded 2 mythbusters from 2003 at the time of 2am. I only record the new shows of mythbusters. so I was surprised to see 2 2003 mythbusters recorded.