[mythtv-users] MythWeb "Warning: Unknown Programme" error since daylight savings change (BST to GMT)

[Ash Bostock]

2008/10/26 Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>

> On 10/26/2008 05:45 PM, Nick Morrott wrote:
> > On 26/10/2008, Ash Bostock wrote:
> >
> >> My frontend has no issues at all and I can list all programmes on
> mythweb,
> >> but if I click on any of the titles under the "Recorded Programmes" list
> I
> >> get an error "Warning: Unknown Programme.".
> >>
> >> I'm not the only one either...
> >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6037167
> >>
> >> Any one have an idea of what the problem could be?
> >>
> >
> > On my system, any recordings made after BST-GMT changeover are okay,
> > any recorded before show the 'Unknown Programme' error and bounces me
> > to the TV listings page. A majority of these older recordings still
> > have thumbnails, although they have disappeared for a handful of
> > recordings.
> >
> > I'm guessing (haven't looked) that it's due to the date/time
> > processing used in MythWeb - you'll notice programme information URLs
> > include an epoch-seconds-like string.
> >
> > MythTV still has no concept of UTC offsets (I created a ticket on trac
> > earlier to reflect this) and so every six months during DST
> > changeovers things can go south.
>
> Especially if you misconfigure/don't properly configure your MythWeb host.
>
> PHP tries to pick up the local time zone rules in use on the system on
> which it runs, but it seems that on many distros, it fails to do so
> properly.  Simply add the time zone to php.ini.
>
> In other words, /every/ program that uses MythTV data (all backends and
> frontends and the MythWeb host(s)) /must/ run with the same time zone
> rules specified.
>
> Though the comment is way too specific and not completely accurate, the
> approach used for the fix is right here:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythWeb#Time_Stamp_is_off_by_an_hour
>
> BTW, we go through this every 6 months.  Just check the Ubuntu archives
> from 6 months ago (or a year ago or ...).
>
> Mike
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Thanks, I've added...
date.timezone = Europe/London
...to my php.ini file and that's resolved the issue.

Ash
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