[mythtv-users] DVB OTA EPG in Finland: wrong time

Osma Ahvenlampi oa at iki.fi
Wed Mar 23 07:38:34 UTC 2005


After happily using MythTV for months, and v0.17 since almost the day it
was released, today I ran into a new problem, the reason to which eludes
me after a few hours of debugging: the EPG for my DVB-T channels is a
couple of too early.

I don't know if this is related to installing the ATrpms updates (now
mythtv-0.17-97.rhfc3.at), or the upcoming daylight savings time (next
weekend in Finland along with the rest of EU), or some other factor, but
a program which actually will start at 22:00 is marked in the EPG as
starting at 20:00, and so forth. Obviously, this means no recordings
contain what they should contain. Yesterday, things still were fine (but
that EPG data could be a few days old, while I was still running an
older ATrpms build of 0.17).

Now, 2 hours is the difference between Finnish time and UTC, until DST
kicks in (and then the difference will be +3 hours). What would sort of
make sense is if the EPG data is sent in UTC time, and MythTV interprets
it as local time - but then it breaking today is hard to explain.

I've tried changing the HW system clock from UTC time to local time,
running both mythbackend and mysqld with TZ=GMT in the environment, a
few other hacks that I hoped would have had effect, but none have
helped. 

Any ideas would be quite appreciated. Thanks!

//osma



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