[mythtv-users] Re: Time Zones

[Stefan Frank]

Dirk Aust <dirk_aust at gmx.de> writes:

> Hello,
> does anybody know how to handle correctly with time zones?
>
> When I load an XMLTV file for Germany generated by nxtvepg, the data will be 
> loaded succesfully by mythfilldatabase, but the times in the file are UTC and 
> for that time zone they will be displayed in the Program Guide, that means 
> for Germany that all programs appear 2 hours too early.
>
> Even though the time zone and system time is properly set up on the machine.
>
> Any Ideas?
> Dirk
>

Sure, start setup on the backend. In General go to the 3rd screen and
change the 'Time offset for XMLTV listings' parameter to Auto.
This should fix it, but you have to run mythfilldatabase again.

Note that MythTV doesn't yet handle dayllight savings time, so expect this
problem again when we switch back to UTC+1 in a few weeks.
Noone got bothered about this enough yet to correct it, but as mythtv is an
opensource project feel free to fix this issue. :-)

Bye, Stefan

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