721 missed a timer this morning. . .

[treiher]

. . . very strange. The time changed as it was supposed to for Daylight Savings time, everything seemd to be in order, but when I went to look at the event it was supposed to record, it wasn't. The timer was there, red dot in the guide, all the times were right. It just wasn't recording 50 minutes into the event. Then, after I looked at it, it started to record!! It's almost like it forgot the timer was there until I looked at it. I wonder if this is a bug related to the time change. Anyway, if anyone has timers set to record today, you might watch them pretty closely!

[DmitriA]

I had to reset a couple of my one-time timers as well. The weekly ones were fine. I think the problem is if you use last week's guide to set them, you'll have to redo them because they are off by 1 hour

[Steve Mehs]

I had to redo all 5 of my weekly timers on my 508 and both daily timers on my mom's 508 as the timers never adjusted them self.

[Jacob S]

Why would some adjust themselves and others not adjust themselves? Or are all of them not adjusting themselves?

[Steve Mehs]

Why did my 508 act like a POS with 167 and others didn't. Why, back a few months ago, OpenTV apps were constantly crashing, but mine didn't until a while later? Who knows. The 50X software is very strange in which receivers are normal and which act up.

[dbronstein]

Why should any timers have to adjust themselves? 7 p.m. is 7 p.m. regardless if it's DST or standard time. The only thing that should need to be adjusted is the clock.

[Mark Lamutt]

I had 2 timers not fire correctly today, but all the rest did. After thinking about it, I realized that I had set those 2 timers last week from the guide. But, the guide data for today wasn't correct last week because it showed all programming information an hour early. And my 2 timers today both recorded an hour earlier than I expected them to.

But, this didn't affect any of my preset weekly timers - they have all worked the way they are supposed to today.

[treiher]

Mine are all O.K. now too. Everything else seems to have fired as it was supposed to. Like I said before, it's almost like looking at the one timer, caused the unit to wake-up on everything else. I know that doesn't make sense! I agree with dbronstein, why should the time change affect anything? Once the current time is changed, everything else should remain the same and work as scheduled. Very strange!

[makman]

I had a timer set for 5 pm yesterday (Sunday), and it recorded the show at 6 pm instead. It was a weekly timer I set up months ago.

Mitch

[SteveinDanville]

I had two timers set off of the guide last week for Sunday morning and afternoon, and they both fired an hour early. Both were for movies, so I missed the first hour, so obviously I deleted them and I'll just have to wait for them to pop up on TCM again. Sounds like an accomodation needs to be made for "daylight savings time". They have 6 months to fix it.....

[treiher]

Clearly this has to do with daylight savings time, but I what I don't get is why?!?!? I mean, all that changes is the current time. The actual start and end time of the timers stay the same. If all you are doing is changing the current time that the unit thinks it is, how should this affect the timers? There must be some other clock running in the background that doesn't show up in the guide that the timers use to fire. So when the time changes in the guide, there must be some delay before the actual time changes on the unit. Maybe a soft reboot right after the time change would reset the units clock as well? A lot of speculation on my part, but I sure hope the folks at Echo* address this!

[Bill R]

I have all sorts of timers set up, some manual, some "auto" (weekly and one time) and not one has been missed since the time change (and I have not re-booted my 721).

[rcwilcox]

Well most of my timers on my 721 are one time events with some weekly. I checked them after DST and some were off as in set to fire on the right channel but off by an hour. I deleted all timers as set new ones. Oh well...............

[Bill R]

Even though all my timers have fired correctly since the time change I was just checking future one-time ones and they are off by one hour. Last Saturday afternoon I set one for 9-11 PM tonight (Tuesday) to record the Cher concert on NBC. AFTER the time change the 721 moved it back to 8 PM and made it one hour (instead of two) so I would have missed the whole thing.

I would advise everyone to check their timers.

[jgoggan]

Timers that I set within the week before the time change all recorded the wrong time. Timers that I had before that (mainly weekly timers) worked properly.

On a side note -- things get odd before the time change anyhow -- even in the Guide. The evening before the time change, I went 24 hours ahead in the Guide and everything was off by an hour! For example, it was telling me that the normally 8pm Simpsons was on from 7pm to 8pm. It was like the Guide was off in preparation for the adjustment at 2am -- at which time it all became "right" again.

Of course, except for those timers that I mentioned above -- they all recorded the wrong times.

Oh -- and all of the ones that recorded the wrong times lost their info in the PVR itself. They all said that they recorded on "1/1" from 12:00 to 12:00 and had no description -- regardless of what they actually recorded. heh.

Buggy time change crap.

- John...