[mythtv-users] My guide data is out by 8 hours

[Robert Johnston]

On 11/12/2011 12:37 AM, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Phil Wild<phil at holobyte.com.au>  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I don't know what has gone wrong on my system. My guide data is out by eight
>> hours. The listings are appearing in mythtv as if they are scheduled 8
>> hours  after they actually air.
>>
>> I have checked my timezone and date setting on both my frontend and
>> master/backend. Both the frontend schedule listing and the backend mythweb
>> interface are showing the same 8 hours out of sync.
>>
>> I used shepherd to pol
>>
>> My timezone is WST-8 (Perth Australia)
>>
>> I have run  dpkg-reconfigure tzdata on both frontend and backend.
>>
>> Any suggestions as to what has gone wrong?
>
> Try running the date command and echo $TZ as the user that runs the
> backend (that user also runs mythfilldatabase)

Also make sure that mythfildatabase is set to use the right timezone 
when importing guide data. "Auto" should work the best, but it sounds 
like your listings are in UTC, and mfdb is interpreting them as WST 
(local time).