Daylight savings - EPG off by an hour

[sfag]

I've emptied the epg, deleted the xml source, recreated the xml source and copied it back to npvr.
The epg is still out by an hour?
Any suggestions as to what might be wrong?

[Reddwarf]

I've emptied the epg, deleted the xml source, recreated the xml source and copied it back to npvr.
The epg is still out by an hour?
Any suggestions as to what might be wrong?

Two things to check, do you have the correct timezone? And is your computer set to automatically adjust for Daylight Savings?

[Waynesm]

Only wrong for the Saturday, then is correct for following days.
Have seen another reference to this which I think Sub is aware of.

[sfag]

Yes - i have the right timezone on the PC and the PC time adjusted OK. I'm using digiguide as the source and the data is correct when viewed in digiguide.

[sfag]

alas mine is incorrect for all the days. Is there some setting in npvr itself?

[sub]

There is no nextpvr settings for this. As well as needing your PC's timezone set correctly, you also need to have it set to auto adjust for daylight savings. You're probably missing that. After changing, you'd need to do an 'empty epg' followed by 'update epg'.

[bgowland]

It might be worth zipping and attaching the xmltv file.

[sfag]

I've noticed that when I empty the epg and then check the tv guide it is is missing the programme data however if I look in tv recordings it still shows my scheduled recordings set to the incorrect date- could it be that my epg is noting being emptied correctly?

[sfag]

i've just noticed that the epg data contains +0000 at the end of every program time - should this say +0100 ?

[bgowland]

I've noticed that when I empty the epg and then check the tv guide it is is missing the programme data however if I look in tv recordings it still shows my scheduled recordings set to the incorrect date- could it be that my epg is noting being emptied correctly?

Don't worry about this at this stage - the pending recordings aren't deleted as a result of emptying the EPG - they'll be deleted / re-created during an update.

i've just noticed that the epg data contains +0000 at the end of every program time - should this say +0100 ?

Yes if the start times have been adjusted for BST. When EPG data are imported to the database, all times are normalised to UTC so for example if the time a programme starts in the xmltv file is '0900 +0000', it's considered as being 9am GMT/UTC. If whatever generates your xmltv file is actually showing the time for a programme which starts at 9am BST then the import will consider '0900 +0000' as being 8am GMT/UTC.

In short, yes, it looks like your xmltv generator is showing BST times but with an offset of +0000 instead of +0100.