[mythtv-users] Offset in xmltv file not working

[Karl Dietz]

On 03.10.2014 21:02, Thomas Pontoppidan wrote:
> 2014-10-03 20:50 GMT+02:00 Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com
> <mailto:joe at thefrys.com>>:
>
>
>     Any chance you updated mythtv to a new version?  Mythtv now uses UTC
>     time by default, you may not need to use the +0200 any more?
>
>
> Thanks, but the version is unchanged. In Mythbuntu control center I set
> it to only update to 0.27 and it has been 0.27 for a while without any
> problems.
>
> I forgot to specify that the epg shows start time as 18:00:00 for a
> program that starts at 20:00:00 - 180000 +0200 in the xmltv file.
>
> I can't change the "+0200" - the xmltv file is downloaded from an EPG
> service provider (timefor.tv <http://timefor.tv>).

If you want a workaround for the time until they fix their feed, then
you can just remove the " +0200" from the file and import that. This
would work as time without timezone is defined as implicit UTC in xmltv.

  cat broken.xmltv | sed -e "s/ \+0200\"/\"/g" > fixed.xmltv

Regards,
Karl