[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct and time offset

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 14:32:04 UTC 2008


On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Robert Eden <rmeden at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 2/26/2008 11:08 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>  > Ok, I'm looking for a XMLTV expert to answer this...
>  >
>  I guess I qualify then.. :)
>
> >  <programme start="20080226003000 +0000" stop="20080226010000 +0000"
>  > channel="I10321.labs.zap2it.com">
>  >     <title lang="en">Wheel of Fortune</title>
>  >     <sub-title lang="en">25th Anniversary Sweepstakes</sub-title>
>  >     <credits>
>  >       <presenter>Pat Sajak</presenter>
>  >       <presenter>Vanna White</presenter>
>  >     </credits>
>  >     <date>20080225</date>
>  >     <category lang="en">Game show</category>
>  >     <category lang="en">Series</category>
>  >     <episode-num system="dd_progid">EP00004762.1334</episode-num>
>  >     <episode-num system="onscreen">4801</episode-num>
>  >     <subtitles type="teletext" />
>  >     <rating system="VCHIP">
>  >       <value>TV-G</value>
>  >     </rating>
>  >   </programme>
>  >
>  TMS always reports data in UTC.
>  XMLTV can report data with a time offset,  but in your case appears to
>  also be UTC.  (-0000)
>
> > The program guide says it should come on at 6:30 AM on 2/26.
>  > The XML file from Schedules Direct says it should come on at 12:30AM on 2/26.
>  > It actually should air at 6:30 PM on 2/27.
>  >
>   I have the exact same info, which means EP00004762.1334 will air on
>  *2/25* at 6:30pm US Central Time.  Sounds very reasonable to me.  What
>  makes you so sure it should be two days later?

You're right... I shouldn't try to do math at 11pm after having a beer.

>  I don't know how Myth works (you asked for an XMLTV expert, not a Myth
>  expert),  but are you *sure* your system's time is correct? What's the
>  output of "date" and "date -u".
>
>  Robert

Yes, I've verified the system time several times just to be sure and
it is correct (within a few minutes) I meant to put that in my post
but forgot.

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.

BTW, should have mentioned I'm running 20.2 (latest available from
atrpms) on F8.

Thanks,
Richard


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