[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct and time offset

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Robert Eden <rmeden at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 2/27/2008 8:33 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>  > 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.
>  >
>  <programme start="20080226003000 +0000"
>  is the same as
>  <programme start="20080225183000 -0600"
>
>  The purpose of the XMLTV offset is to make the file more humanly readable, an application should take the provided time offset into account in it's calculations (and hopefully use GMT internally as it solves DST issues)
>
>  I often run into applications that ignore the offset field and just used the XMLTV offseted time values..... then they complain about DST issues! :)
>
>  So you're back to a MythTV problem and not a XMLTV problem. Thank you for calling XMLTV support. :)
>
>
>
>  Robert

I came to that conclusion as well. Thanks for the confirmation.

So the next question is... Does anyone know why mythfilldatabase would
do this incorrectly or why the time offset in myth-setup seems to have
no effect?

Thanks,
Richard