Myth Tv listings an hour off.

xavierking · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Posts: 51

Hey. I'm working on setting up myth tv and my listings are an hour off. Any help would be nice. Thanks.

Old School · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:48 am Post subject:

Don't know where you live, but have you factored in daylight savings time? For example during standard time I'm GMT -8, but during DST, I'm -7. Just a thought.
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xavierking · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Posts: 51

How exactly do i change the setting but still keep my time accurate? i mean... Sure. I can set my time an hour back and everything is flawless. Except for the fact that it throws me all out of whack. I'm set for EST right now.

LD · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:34 am Post subject:

What distro you using?

I've found that runing ntp on my mythbox tends to that for me. I'm actually worried about the change over.

When do we get out of DST this year?
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xavierking · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Posts: 51

Arch. Yes.. Sorry.. I'm quite the traitor... I just like it more. I think we switch times in a few weeks.

bunder · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:09 am Post subject:

if your system time and zone are correct but your epg is off, there are two things i can think of you can do:

1) complain to schedules direct - they'll probably ask you to confirm your listings to what is shown on the zap2it site.
2) set your mythtv to offset the EIT data by an hour - i think that one is in mythtv-setup.

hopefully its something simple. :wink:

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xavierking · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Posts: 51

I actually tried the offset option and my listings didnt move even after i did a mythfilldatabase --refresh-all

Tasslehoff · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject:

How do you get listings at all? I thought the source (zap2it) stopped giving data

LD · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:45 am Post subject:

Tasslehoff · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject:

Thanks. $20/year isnt so bad for the service

nobrob · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 26

I too have this problem. I'm in the UK and it's BST currently (clocks actually go back tonight). I use EIT listings and the programs are all an hour forward (live tv shows the next program).

The EIT offset doesn't appear to make any difference to my listings, I've tried mythfilldatabase --refresh-all, restarting mythbackend and rebooting the machine several times in all sorts of combinations.

Is there a solution to this? Is there a way to make mythtv compensate for the bizarre timezones we have?

slycordinator · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:04 pm Post subject:

http://forums.schedulesdirect.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=453

nobrob · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 26

Trouble is, MythTV grabs the off-the-air (EIT) listings by itself. I've no idea how it happens or what I'd have to do to modify this routine. The clocks here have changed from British Summer Time to Greenwich Mean Time and the listings seem fine. However, I'd like to know how to fix this now so that in half a year I won't be spending twice as long having to refresh my memory.

"Time offset for XMLTV listings" has, as expected, no effect.
"Time offset for EIT listings" has, unexpectedly, no effect.