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<blockquote data-quote="RonD" data-source="post: 928917" data-attributes="member: 117536">There is a timezone and daylight savings time bug in my original May2012 version of the imdb grabber file. I updated the 1st entry in this thread with a new Nov2012 grabber file that fixes the bug and modified the wiki US EPG setup guide with instructions for the new grabber file. You now need to set a zipcode when you download listings so imdb.com does timezone adjustments.&nbsp;I'm in the Pacific timezone and last night I noticed the EPG for my local 10PM News was wrong and that all the listings had problems from 9 pm until 1 pm or so. This is caused by a bug with how my grabber file was doing timezone corrections from imdb Eastern Timezone listings to local EPG (Pacific for me) timezone. There is almost always a 3 hour time difference between the Eastern Timezone and the Pacific Timezone. On the 2 nights a year when the US switches between standard time and daylight savings time there 2-3 hour window with a 2 or 4 hour difference between Eastern/Pacific time.&nbsp;I guess a silicon chip design guy who thinks of time in picoseconds should let the software &quot;experts&quot; handle difficult problems with hours, timezones, daylight savings time. I've worked on a lot of intermittent timing problems but never saw a timing problem measured in hours that only happens 2 times a year. Now we have wait until spring to see if the fix works.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RonD, post: 928917, member: 117536"] There is a timezone and daylight savings time bug in my original May2012 version of the imdb grabber file. I updated the 1st entry in this thread with a new Nov2012 grabber file that fixes the bug and modified the wiki US EPG setup guide with instructions for the new grabber file. You now need to set a zipcode when you download listings so imdb.com does timezone adjustments. I'm in the Pacific timezone and last night I noticed the EPG for my local 10PM News was wrong and that all the listings had problems from 9 pm until 1 pm or so. This is caused by a bug with how my grabber file was doing timezone corrections from imdb Eastern Timezone listings to local EPG (Pacific for me) timezone. There is almost always a 3 hour time difference between the Eastern Timezone and the Pacific Timezone. On the 2 nights a year when the US switches between standard time and daylight savings time there 2-3 hour window with a 2 or 4 hour difference between Eastern/Pacific time. I guess a silicon chip design guy who thinks of time in picoseconds should let the software "experts" handle difficult problems with hours, timezones, daylight savings time. I've worked on a lot of intermittent timing problems but never saw a timing problem measured in hours that only happens 2 times a year. Now we have wait until spring to see if the fix works. [/QUOTE]

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