[mythtv-users] MythTV does not handle daylight savings properly

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Fri Nov 9 17:25:00 UTC 2012


On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:51 PM, w.f.mythbuster at gmail.com <
w.f.mythbuster at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Op 9-11-2012 7:45, Nick Rout schreef:
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Wim <w.f.mythbuster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Op 8-11-2012 7:37, Karl Dietz schreef:
>>
>>  On 04.11.2012 14:13, Wim wrote:
>>>
>>>  I have I few power search rules like below.
>>>>
>>>> program.title LIKE '%de wereld draait door%'
>>>> AND channel.callsign like '%ned%'
>>>> AND HOUR(program.starttime)>=19
>>>> AND HOUR(program.starttime)<=21
>>>>
>>>> But after the stat off wintertime last weekend.
>>>>
>>>> I had to change the rule like this.
>>>>
>>>> program.title LIKE '%de wereld draait door%'
>>>> AND channel.callsign like '%ned%'
>>>> AND HOUR(program.starttime)>=18
>>>> AND HOUR(program.starttime)<=20
>>>>
>>>> So apparently Mythtv does not handle daylight saving properly.
>>>>
>>>> What can I do to make this work properly.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can you, as a quick work around, simply make the window larger?
>>> 18-21 in this case?
>>>
>>> Or best, just not use power rules with times. They are always a
>>> workaround for a broken guide that doesn't properly assign the same
>>> programid to multiple showings of the same program.
>>>
>>  How is a user supposed to fix guide data.
>>
>>
> Download the xmltv data and process with a text processing language like
> python, with a known set of rules. Just like everyone else does :)
>
> End users don't do such things
>

Yeah they do actually, but better people than me wrote the scripts :)


> .
> Also the eit data comes from sattelite.
>

I think if you use EIT you kinda expect crap :)

Take a look at  epgsnoop which harvests eit data and massages it to improve
quality/consistency and outputs xmltv data for import into mythtv.
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