[mythtv-users] guide time off by four hours

[matt lutz]

Hmm... well, something I did must have fixed the issue, because
everything starting Thursday is correct... not sure why the
--refresh-today didn't actually refresh the current data, but I can
live with the offset until then.

Thanks,
Matt


On 8/23/05, matt lutz <myth.matt.lutz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bryan,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  Even when I run 'mythfilldatabase
> --refresh-today' the time is still off.  Everything as far as time
> goes on the backend server seems to be okay, it's just the database
> has all programs starting 4 hours after they really do.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
> 
> On 8/23/05, Bryan Halter <bhalter at armyofpenguins.com> wrote:
> > The localtime of the machine running the backend should be set to your
> > localtime, unfortunately the showing time of listings gotten through
> > datadirect is calculated when mythfilldatabase is run so you'll need to
> > a) delete the data already downloaded or b) run mythfilldatabse
> > --refresh-today everyday for 2 weeks to get rid of the old listings
> >
> > matt lutz wrote:
> >
> > >Hey all,
> > >
> > >I'm struggling with a problem right now regarding the time of programs
> > >in the guide.  All of my programs are off by 4 hours.  I can't really
> > >understand it.  The localtime of my box is set correctly to UTC, and
> > >the frontend has the right time in it, but all the guide data is off.
> > >It's as if the myth database is seeing the localtime on my box as UTC,
> > >and then applying the timezone shift again  (I'm in EST daylight
> > >savings).
> > >
> > >Did I configure something inadvertently somewhere?  I use zap2it for
> > >the guide data, and I do not have an offset for xmltv configured in
> > >mythtvsetup.  I'm not really sure where else to look.  I did do a
> > >mythfilldatabase --refresh-today, and verified that the /etc/localtime
> > >file was linked correctly to EST5EDT.  I'm not sure exactly when this
> > >problem started as my myth box is not yet heavily utilized, and I
> > >thought for a while that this was a frontend problem, not a backend
> > >issue.
> > >
> > >Thanks for any help you can provide.
> > >
> > >Matt
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