After setting up my mythbox the channel guide is always 8 hours off, and the time adjustment on the setup menu seems to have no affect, no matter how much i adjust it, I know that i have the right channel frequency, and the time zone settings are correct, has anyone else run into this?

Are you in the PST timezone like I think you are? If so, then one of your servers processes still thinks it's running in UTC. I've written instructions on fixing this several times. For a sure fix you need to make sure that both your system clock and your hardware clock are set properly, reboot your system, verify that the time is indeed correct, purge your DB and reload it using the correct timezone. A search of the forum and the wiki will provide detailed instructions.

Assuming that the above went according to plan, you should be able to boot from the hard drive and log in using the user name and password you designated during the install. One of the first things you might notice is that the time (and possibly date) are not correct.

One weakness of the knoppix-installer script is that it does not ask you to enter your time zone during the installation process. You are also not asked if you want to set your hardware clock to local time or UTC. Solving these issues is not hard, though not particularly intuitive. On the command line (as root), enter the following commands (in this order):

1) tzconfig or tzsetup (to set time zone)
2) date MMDDHHmmCCYY (to change the date & time)
3) hwclock --localtime (to set hardware clock to local time)
4) hwclock --systohc (to set system time to hardware clock)

Finally, you can check it to make that all is as it should be:

5) hwclock --show

Optionally, if you are corrected to the Internet, you could run the script fix-time.sh. In order for this to work, you'll still have to first run tzconfig or tzsetup to set the correct time zone. Also, your firewall must not be blocking NTP (Network Time Protocol).

Modern releases of KnoppMyth all automatically setup an ntpd client daemon which will periodically sync your machine with pool.ntp.org. There is also no need to set your hwclock to localtime unless you're in the habit of setting it by hand from the BIOS.

SO COOL!! I set up my local time as UTC during setup. this step by step set me straight. Thanks so much!