[mythtvnz] Newbie question regarding Daylight Savings time.

Kenneth Dixon ken.dixon at clear.net.nz
Wed Oct 8 22:27:04 BST 2008


Hi Philip,
Have a look under:
mythtv-setup->General->Locale settings->your local timezone
(for XMLTV)
mine is set to 'None' and it works, there is also an 'Auto'
setting which looks promising
Try 'None' first and see if it works.


Ken


----- Original Message Follows -----
> Okay so this is probably a total newbie question but
> searching through the mythtv documentation I can't seem to
> find an easy answer to it.
> 
> I am using xmlTVNZ to do the webscraping needed to fill
> the epg and I have a shell script that runs xmlTVNZ and
> then follows it with a mythfilldatabase call to then pull
> the xml file into the database. However this procedure
> seems permanently stuck on NZST which means, for the
> meantime, I have been running the clock an hour back. This
> gets annoying everytime I reboot the box to as I have to
> remember to reset the clock. The weird thing is that the
> xml file has the correct time shift in it, thus :-
> 
> <programme start="20081008000000 +1300"
> stop="20081008001500 +1300" channel="tv1">
> 
> So why isn't mythfilldatabase picking up on the +1300
> here? I am just using a :-
> 
> mythfilldatabase --file 1 tvguide.xml
> 
> So how do I kick the database filling to properly respect
> NZDST here?
> 
> Philip
> 
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