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Scheduling

MTM400 MPEG Transport Stream Monitor User Manual

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-480 minutes

(8hrs before UTC)

-420 minutes

(7hrs before UTC)

-360 minutes

(6hrs before UTC)

-300 minutes

(5hrs before UTC)

With Schedule 'UTC
Offset' attribute set to
'Local'

With Schedule 'UTC
Offset' attribute set to
-360 minutes

13:00 schedule time
= 21:00 UTC

13:00 schedule time
= 20:00 UTC

13:00 schedule time
= 19:00 UTC

13:00 schedule time
= 18:00 UTC

13:00 schedule time
= 19:00 UTC

13:00 schedule time
= 19:00 UTC

13:00 schedule time
= 19:00 UTC

13:00 schedule time
= 19:00 UTC

USA (Part)

Time Zones

UTC to Local Time

Zone Offset

(MTM400

Configuration -

Set Time dialog)

UTC = Universal Co-ordinated Time

Figure 3-36: Scheduling and time zones

For example, if ‘UTC Offset’ is set to 60, then schedule times defined are one hour
ahead of UTC. This means that if a schedule time of 11:00 is specified, the
appropriate configuration should be loaded at 11:00 - 60 minutes = 10:00 UTC.

This method of operation is useful where there are multiple RTM devices
monitoring a transmission chain that spans several time zones, and configurations
that check features of the transport stream have to be loaded by each RTM device
at the same instant in time.