EPG Update Time - Minutes Setting

[krypton_john]

Hi All,

I wish I could set the minutes on the update time - presently I can only set hours. This means that where the update script needs to hit a website, the hits will all happen on the hour boundary. If we could set minutes, these hits could be spread out, reducing the likelihood of sites getting overloaded, or in the case of sites like SkyTV in NZ, less likely that they will notice they are getting their EPG scraped.

Cheers
JohnO

[sub]

It doesnt actually happen exactly on the hour, but rather some random number of minutes after it. This was done in the early days when zap2it used to have a problem with the everyone's EPG update occurring at the same time. I decided it was better at the time that I build in a small amount of random offset, since the vast majority of users will never modify the default value.

[krypton_john]

Ah Sub, you are a step ahead of me as usual!

Cheers,
JohnO