[colug-432] A Real Time Clock question

[jep200404 at columbus.rr.com]

Rob Stampfli wrote:

> I'm looking at shifting all the timekeeping.
> 
> The basic idea is that this machine is used to digitially record
> TV programming for later viewing.  I use Cron to start things off,
> and it takes a couple seconds to get everything going.  However,
> I don't want to start the recordings a full minute early, and in
> any event, having to program the start times for everything as
> xx:59 or xx:29 would be ugly.  I suppose the alternative would be
> to tweak just Cron, although I don't see any obvious way of doing
> that, either.

MythTV allows one to specify how early to start a recording, 
to the second. 

Utilities/Setup --> Setup --> TV Settings --> General
first item on fourth screen