DVDR declares January leap month.

[micky]

DVDR declares January leap month.

Not really January, more like February 8, and not really adding a day,
but subtracting one.

Somehow, my Philips DVDR decided today was tomorrow, or at least
Saturday. None of the recorded shows were what I wanted to watch, but
otoh, they shows matched Saturday times and channels.

I thought I had overslept and lost a day, and that was bad because
Friday was cold but Saturday was supposed to be very warm, and I guess I
slept through it. And bad because it means I'm getting senile. But I
set the DVDR back to yesterday.

Now I'm looking at the computer and it says that it IS Friday

The DVDR clock is on Automatic. I forget what that means.

There is also Off and Manual. For Manual it asks what channel (the one
that carries the time. PBS?)

So it seems like every dvdr etc. that is on automatic might have gained
a day today, and lost a day of recordings. Have any of you ever heard
of that before?

 

[Mike Duffy]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:52:15 -0500, micky wrote:

> The DVDR clock is on Automatic. I forget what that means.

Look it up. With the model number, you should be be able to find the manual
on the Internet.

So it seems like every dvdr etc. that is on automatic might
have gained a day today, and lost a day of recordings.

Have any of you ever heard of that before?

What? Someone who still uses a DVD recorder?

Yes, during the previous millenium.

 

[micky]

In sci.electronics.repair, on Fri, 10 Feb 2017 20:31:05 -0500, Mike
Duffy <mqduffy001@bell.net> wrote:

On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:52:15 -0500, micky wrote:

The DVDR clock is on Automatic. I forget what that means.

Look it up. With the model number, you should be be able to find the manual
on the Internet.

I did. It made sense at the time but not it doesn't again.

So it seems like every dvdr etc. that is on automatic might
have gained a day today, and lost a day of recordings.

Have any of you ever heard of that before?

What? Someone who still uses a DVD recorder?

It's good for burning DVDs from TV shows.

>Yes, during the previous millenium.

 

[micky]

In sci.electronics.repair, on Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:52:15 -0500, micky
<NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> wrote:

So it seems like every dvdr etc. that is on automatic might have gained
a day today, and lost a day of recordings. Have any of you ever heard
of that before?

It may have gotten buried, but this was the point of the post. Have
any of you ever heard of a timer in a DVDR or something losing or
gaining a whole day in one step?

Which is more likely? Either an internal mistake or from some central
place. For those who didn't know about this: Times are sent out from
iirc PBS stations on PBS channels that are used by TV recorders like the
times sent out on the internet to computers that are used to keep
computer times accurate.

 

[Mike Duffy]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 11:12:55 -0500, micky wrote:

Which is more likely? Either an internal mistake or from some central
place. For those who didn't know about this: Times are sent out from
iirc PBS stations on PBS channels that are used by TV recorders like the
times sent out on the internet to computers that are used to keep
computer times accurate.

Then probably it was a human error made by someone operating the device
that does this encoding. There is no way for you to know because in all
likelyhood everyone else except you uses their DVRs (not DVD recorders) to
record TV programs, and most DVRs use the same protocol as your PC uses
(NTP) to maintain synchronization.

 

Mike Duffy posted for all of us...

On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 11:12:55 -0500, micky wrote:

Which is more likely? Either an internal mistake or from some central
place. For those who didn't know about this: Times are sent out from
iirc PBS stations on PBS channels that are used by TV recorders like the
times sent out on the internet to computers that are used to keep
computer times accurate.

Then probably it was a human error made by someone operating the device
that does this encoding. There is no way for you to know because in all
likelyhood everyone else except you uses their DVRs (not DVD recorders) to
record TV programs, and most DVRs use the same protocol as your PC uses
(NTP) to maintain synchronization.

Is this Comblast? They are noted for their lousy coding.

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Tekkie