[mythtv-users] Short summary: wrong program times / timezone problems

[Stefan Frank]

Hi,

there's been several users reporting problems with TV listings displaying
the wrong start/stop times in mythtv.

After some reading, here's a short summary of what i've found:

                DST                 Std Time

 tv_grab_sn:    worked              off by one
 tv_grab_dk:    worked              off by one
 tv_grab_nl:    worked              off by one
 tv_grab_de:    stopped working at all since about 09/2003


Reasons & Fix:

tv_grab_sn:
    grabber used timezone of '+0200' during DST, but 'CET' instead of
    '+0100' now (XMLTV bug 834143)
    In addition the program times are already wrong in the listings.
    (Debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=217711)
    temporary fix: in tv_grab_sn set the timezone from CET to UTC 

tv_grab_dk: 
    program times are already wrong in the listings
    reported by Rune Olsen (on this list)
    fixed by setting TimeOffset to ?

tv_grab_nl:
    reported by Erik Dooper (on this list)
    not yet resolved, but he found a bug in mythsetup when setting
    TimeOffset to None (empty string stored in db instead of 'None')
    temporary fix: set TimeOffset in the db manually to '+0000'

tv_grab_de:
    the server generating the xmltv files is down
    (permanent?) fix: use nxtvepg or an alternative grabber




HTH, Stefan

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