[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase time offset wrong?????

Yang Yang yangyang at juggler.ucsd.edu
Sat Sep 18 23:05:48 EDT 2004


thanks I think it is correct, and "date" gives a correct output
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 06:34:10PM -0400, David Shay wrote:
> mythfilldatabase in the internal datadirect grabber relies on the operating
> system's timezone knowledge in order to convert from the datadirect times
> (which are always in UTC) and your local timezone, which is what mythtv uses
> in it's tables.  In order for this to work, you must be dealing with
> timezones appropriately in your version of linux.  This varies from version
> to version, sometimes using /etc/localtime as a link to a specific timezone
> (in gentoo, for example).  You probably just don't have your local timezone
> setup properly.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Yang Yang" <yangyang at juggler.ucsd.edu>
> To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 5:52 AM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase time offset wrong?????
> 
> 
> > hi folks:
> >   I'm using mythfilldatabase to get data for TV listing,
> > my mythtv is 1.5.X (sorry forgot, just reverted to 1.3.X, i'm using
> > gentoo).   since this newer version no longer works with xmltv for
> > North America, I can't do simple tricks like editing the output file
> > of xmltv to set the offset correct.
> >
> > now mythfilldataabase doesn't seem to have the facility to set
> > offset, it relies on the correctness of datadirect service? in my
> > zap2it account, there is not setting for offset, just choose local
> > TV provider, which I did correctly. I briefly looked at the code of
> > datadirect.cpp and filldata.cpp, they seem to take the data and put
> > them into mysql without adjusting offset.
> >
> > I saw some discussion on this in the list, but they were all on
> > xmltv framework. anybody using the internal datadirect grabber??
> > does it work? how can I set it right?
> >
> > thanks , this is driving me real crazy :(   !!!!!
> >
> > Yang
> >
> 
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