[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct and time offset

[Robert Eden]

On 2/27/2008 8:33 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> It looks like Myth is offsetting the time by +6 instead of -6 hours
> (which would give me the 12 hour difference from actual I'm seeing).
> Although it should handle this properly I wouldn't be so aggravated if
> the timeoffset field worked and I could "Tune it" to be correct.
>   
<programme start="20080226003000 +0000"
is the same as
<programme start="20080225183000 -0600"

The purpose of the XMLTV offset is to make the file more humanly readable, an application should take the provided time offset into account in it's calculations (and hopefully use GMT internally as it solves DST issues)

I often run into applications that ignore the offset field and just used the XMLTV offseted time values..... then they complain about DST issues! :)

So you're back to a MythTV problem and not a XMLTV problem. Thank you for calling XMLTV support. :)

Robert