Problem with switch to DST

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Today I lost a recording that should have taken place at 12:00. Because of the switch to DST it suddenly was sheduled for 13:00.

At the first moment I thought it would be GB-PVR's fault, because it should have treated
"12:00" as local time instead of global.
Also, it seemed to be a very small issue, a result of the adaption of the times already in the gbpvr.db3. But reimporting the xmltv file did not help.

Than I examined the xmltv file and re-downloaded a new one (with xmltv 0.5.59).
In both, the one from yesterday and the one from today, I found:
<programme start="20110327120000 +0100" channel="xy">

My conclusion is that xmltv and gb-pvr assume global times - which I consider to be a good idea -, and the fault lies in the web page xmtlv grabs from. The web page uses wrong times, CET instead of CEST (Central European (Summer) Time) or local time.

I'm looking for a simple way to work around the problem.
First I thought there would be a time correction option in xmtv, but I didn't find any. Instead I found that xmltv seems to be prepared to use local time:

>xmltv.exe tv_grab_ch_search --capabilities
Timezone is +0200
baseline
manualconfig
cache

(c.f. <http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/XmltvCapabilities>)

Can I set a time offset in GB-PVR?
What are other recommendations?

-- Well, I found the option in GB-PVR...

GB-PVR Configuration > Capture Sources > Edit > EPG Source [XMLTV Plugin] Settings
"Apply offset when importing listings [00:00] (Dont use this unless you have to)"

-- Hmmmmm!
Different values for the time offset (-01:00, -02:00, +03:00) didn't show any effect in the Program Guide after "Empty EPG" and "Update EPG".
Actually, sometimes when entering the guide the shows seemed to have transformed times - which immediately reverted to the old ones.

What am I missing?
What else could I do?

[sub]

You should try NPVR instead. It attempts to be smarter around day DST, by using UTC for its listings and recording times. GBPVR instead worked with local times, which was always really messy around switch over time, where some shows would appear to have zero duration (or an hour longer than normal).

From memory, the 'apply offset' feature in GBPVR wasnt functional.

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Well, for the moment I did a simple Search & Replace in the xmltv file with a text editor ("+0100", "+0200") before importing it into GB-PVR.

While it isn't the most elegant solution and probably will get boring after some time it is working.

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Ha, the answers crossed their ways... (I don't know if this is correct English.)
Thank you, sub.

[darag2358]

Make sure that you have the latest DST patch from Microsoft also. I had this same problem and even though my system time was correct, my guide was showing up as an hour off.