Clock on Display is from BIOS

[El_Matthews]

when I start the IRServer with the command irserver -start_clock the time displayed on the display is my bios Clock (GMT time). Does anybody know how to display the local time?

[Stefan Mensink]

The irserver does not always seem to use the timezone offset correctly. You can change the source code to apply your offset manually.

Download the irserver sources, and open the file. Easiest fix is, below the line that says...

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else *((unsigned int *)irw.data) = tb.tv_sec - 60 * tz.tz_minuteswest;

Add this line:

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*((unsigned int *)irw.data) = tb.tv_sec + XXX

where you replace XXX with the amount of minutes you want the clock to go FORWARD. This means, if you want the clock to go 2 hours forward, you use:

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*((unsigned int *)irw.data) = tb.tv_sec + 120

if you want the clock to go 2 hours backwards, use:

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*((unsigned int *)irw.data) = tb.tv_sec - 120

Then recompile the irserver with: make
If you need a 64 bit binary too, also do: make irserver64

Of course you need the C compiler et cetera for all this. I can't tell you which packages you really need, because I usually install a lot of them and it also depends on your Linux distribution. You should be able to find out about that yourself by googling around.

Hope this helps.

Stefan