Timezones in TVServer’s WebEPG (1 Viewer)

[arion_p]

Since 1.1.0 Beta (or is it Alpha?).
Latest SVN has some improvements and bug fixes too.

 

[micmanm]

Exit from a situation when sites do not give the information on a time zone, I see only one:
To create some copies of grabbers with instructions of a correct time zone (+1, 0-1, +2) in everyone, and then in to select "necessary" grabber under "necessary" channel
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www_vsetv_com.xml - UTC-0
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<Site url = "http://www.vsetv.com/schedule_channel _ [ID] _day _ [YYYY] - [MM] - [DD] _print_wd.html? dset11=2&amp; dset21=2&amp; meridian=0" encoding = "Windows-1251"/>
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www_vsetv_com_p1.xml - UTC+1
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<Site url = "http://www.vsetv.com/schedule_channel _ [ID] _day _ [YYYY] - [MM] - [DD] _print_wd.html? dset11=2&amp; dset21=2&amp; meridian=1" encoding = "Windows-1251"/>
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www_vsetv_com_m1.xml - UTC-1
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<Site url = "http://www.vsetv.com/schedule_channel _ [ID] _day _ [YYYY] - [MM] - [DD] _print_wd.html? dset11=2&amp; dset21=2&amp; meridian =-1" encoding = "Windows-1251"/>
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www_vsetv_com_p2.xml - UTC+2
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<Site url = "http://www.vsetv.com/schedule_channel _ [ID] _day _ [YYYY] - [MM] - [DD] _print_wd.html? dset11=2&amp; dset21=2&amp; ----
meridian=2" encoding = "Windows-1251"/>
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Crookedly, but should work

 

[arion_p]

I cannot understand why you keep on with this. With WebEPG none of the above is needed. A grabber in WebEPG crawls pages of a single site. That site will show times in one timezone. That timezone has to be specified in the grabber definition as in (taken from de/www_tvtoday_de.xml):

<Grabber>
  <Info language="de" availableDays="7" [B]timezone="W. Europe Standard Time"[/B] version="2.0" />
  <Channels>

This is not meant to be done by the user, it is for the grabber developer to set it right. If this declaration is right, it is used along with your local timezone to adjust program times. Nothing else is needed.

Note: it is always better to specify timezone using a generic name as above, because this way daylight saving is also taken into account. Using just number (+/-NNNN) you cannot specify DST details (summer time start, end, difference etc)

 

[frenzy]

Since 1.1.0 Beta (or is it Alpha?).
Latest SVN has some improvements and bug fixes too.

That's good news, it was needed.

 

[wpmjones]

Does anyone know the standards for the text timezones? I'm in the US Eastern Standard Time. (GMT -5). The grabbers for the US do not have tiemzones so I'm having to add the info manually, but don't know what exactly to type in there.

Thanks!

 

[arion_p]

You can see all timezones using regedit under keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Time Zones

Each subkey is a timezone.The subkey name is the "language invariant" name of the timezone while the localized name can found in the Std entry of the subkey.

In the grabber you should use the "language invariant" timezone name.
(See also https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/webepg-136/webepg-designer-error-72300/#post524981)

 

[wpmjones]

Awesome! Thank you!