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Within the last weeks two friends built their own VDR system and installed ct’ VDR 6.1 on it. I helped them a bit configuring their remote control with lirc but all in all it was a quite smooth installation.

One thing that I had to do on both systems was to correct the time, on both installations it was set an hour to late. This was because the system configuration said that the time is UTC. I do not know if it is
possible to change this in the installation process but here is what I did:

1. Edit the file /etc/default/rcS and change utc=yes to utc=no
2. Check /etc/timezone if correct timezone is configured
3. Run date -s "2008-02-09 10:15:00" to set the current time
4. Write the corrected system time to the underlying hardware clock by calling hwclock --systohc
5. Reboot
6. Install the ntp daemon with apt-get install ntp so that time gets synced from now on

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