[mythtv-users] MythWeb "Warning: Unknown Programme" error since daylight savings change (BST to GMT)

[Nick Morrott]

On 26/10/2008, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 10/26/2008 05:45 PM, Nick Morrott wrote:
>
> > On 26/10/2008, Ash Bostock wrote:
>  >
>  >> My frontend has no issues at all and I can list all programmes on mythweb,
>  >> but if I click on any of the titles under the "Recorded Programmes" list I
>  >> get an error "Warning: Unknown Programme.".
>  >>
>  >> I'm not the only one either...
>  >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6037167
>  >>
>  >> Any one have an idea of what the problem could be?
>  >>
>  >
>  > On my system, any recordings made after BST-GMT changeover are okay,
>  > any recorded before show the 'Unknown Programme' error and bounces me
>  > to the TV listings page. A majority of these older recordings still
>  > have thumbnails, although they have disappeared for a handful of
>  > recordings.
>  >
>  > I'm guessing (haven't looked) that it's due to the date/time
>  > processing used in MythWeb - you'll notice programme information URLs
>  > include an epoch-seconds-like string.
>  >
>  > MythTV still has no concept of UTC offsets (I created a ticket on trac
>  > earlier to reflect this) and so every six months during DST
>  > changeovers things can go south.
>
>
> Especially if you misconfigure/don't properly configure your MythWeb host.
>
>  PHP tries to pick up the local time zone rules in use on the system on
>  which it runs, but it seems that on many distros, it fails to do so
>  properly.  Simply add the time zone to php.ini.
>
>  In other words, /every/ program that uses MythTV data (all backends and
>  frontends and the MythWeb host(s)) /must/ run with the same time zone
>  rules specified.
>
>  Though the comment is way too specific and not completely accurate, the
>  approach used for the fix is right here:
>  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythWeb#Time_Stamp_is_off_by_an_hour
>
>  BTW, we go through this every 6 months.  Just check the Ubuntu archives
>  from 6 months ago (or a year ago or ...).

I checked the MythWeb documentation, and there was no mention of it,
so it's no surprise you/we go through it every 6 months...

I've created a ticket (http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5856)
containing updates to the documentation and hope it gets applied.

Thanks as always for the pointers,
Nick

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