I have a 6.04 FE/BE and I trying to run up a 7.2 FE (laptop I need later drivers) however after installation I can't get the Frontend to start as it says the Timezone between the Frontend and the Backend are different, however I know they are the same. The Hardware Clocks on both machines are set to UTC and the Timezone is set to Australia/Brisbane on both.

Any ideas?

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Girkers

The timezone check by mythtv is a bit odd, as everything can be the same and it still complains.
First thing to check is to make sure that the time on each system is within 4 minutes of each other.

WOW! How incredible, that worked a treat, I reset the BIOS clock to UTC time, however it still would have been off by about six (6) minutes. Once it was correct all good.

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Girkers

I am reviving this thread because of a similar issue.

New install of frontend on new computer, timezone missmatch error when it boots to the frontend.

I verified that both timezones match in the Linhes setup process
I also verified that when i type in 'date' from the terminal that I get the exact same time.
I also verified that the system time in the BIOS is setup exactly the same. They are both set to the correct UTC time.

So now I am stumped. Any ideas or advice?

You could try this as I recall with a frontend I had to do a NTP check on the frontend and that set the time and got it going correctly. I don't recall exaclty what the command was, but will hopefully point you in the right direction.

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Girkers

Thinks Girkers,

My understanding is that it automatically does NTP check during the boot script and sets the clock from the server, which is why I am even more confused.

Got it working, and wanted to follow-up in case anyone else runs into this issue.

I reviewed the ntp.conf file in /etc. They were different because my backend is LH7.4, and this frontend is R8.0 So made them match by copying over my ntp.conf file from my backend. After this I rebooted and everything is working well now.