[mythtv] xmltv, database, epg and timezone

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 17 January 2003 05:50 am, Hans-Christian Prytz wrote:
> Hi, I just tried the cvs version, and it looks great, with one (so
> far) exception, or maybe it's just me :-)
>
> The time of all shows in the epg is offset by one hour. It looks like
> mythfilldatabase takes the date/time string from xmltv and converts it
> to UTC (eg. 200301171630 +0100 becomes 1530 in the database).
> Is this what the Timezone offset in mythfrontend is supposed to
> account for?
>
> I tried setting this to both +1 and -1 but it does not have any effect
> on the time in epg, not on when recording starts either.

The timeoffset setting only affects things when data is inserted into the 
database -- ie, when mythfilldatabase is run.

> Also, is there a way to get the current time output to use a 24 hour
> clock? The program listing in epg uses a 24 hour clock, but the
> current time is shown in 12-hour format.

Check out the date and time format settings in the Appearance section.

Isaac