EPG Tool : timezone

[oliv615]

Hello,
How to set the time zone in the EPG tool? I would like to have the Europe/Paris region.
Thanks.

[IntProst]

I have a similar problem. My XML file gets created showing entries like:
<programme start="20240521043000 +0000" {etc.}
but I need it to be:
<programme start="20240521043000 -0400" {etc.}

My Windows 10 pc shows "Eastern Standard Time" when I type tzutil /g into CMD (command window), so it should be setting the -0400. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

[Sphinxroot]

it depend on what you use to generate the epg file , if your epg file is 12hr or 24hr or more , u may use tvg-shift="" EPG Calibration if in foreign location to fit your timezone ( "+1" "-1" = Hour ) Empty=Normal in your m3u playlist for the selected channel

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-name="" tvg-shift="" tvg-country="" tvg-language="" tvg-chno="" tvg-logo="" tvg-logo-small="" group-title="",CHANNEL NAME (720p/1080p)

may or may not work on your player

[IntProst]

Sphinxroot,

Thanks for your reply. I'm using the EPG grabber from this site. I'm not sure how to make it add the tvg-shift="" code to my resulting Guide.xml. It would certainly be easier if I could.

I should mention as well that I'm using MediaPortal with it's XMLTV import script to process the EPG. The XMLTV script does provide a way to add or subtract time from the EPG xml file, but it just does not want to work for me. I've tried several times to get it working, including reboots to make sure settings were saved, but I had no success.

However, I did find a way to edit the Guide.xml file using a Windows' PowerShell command. I tried to create a single .BAT file to run using Task Scheduler, but oddly, any commands in the .BAT file after the EPG grabber were skipped. As a result, I needed to create two .BAT files to run sequentially in Task Scheduler.

First is my GetEPG.BAT:

npm run grab -- --days=14 --maxConnections=7 --channels=channel.list/TVGuide.xml --output=Guide.xml

Then I run my TimeZone.BAT:

powershell -Command "& {(gc Guide.xml) -replace '\+0000"', '-0400"' | sc TVGuide.xml}"

The file I use for MediaPortal is the sc (output) file named TVGuide.xml. Note that I need to use the Escaping Character pair of \+ to search for the plus sign. PowerShell needs this because the plus sign is a reserved character. I presume you would need the same for the replacement if your time zone is "plus" from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

My next task will be to modify the TimeZone.BAT to adjust for Eastern Daylight Savings Time (-0500 from GMT).

I don't think I'll bother, but I could apply a variation of the PowerShell solution to add tvg-shift="-0400" in the header of TVGuide.xml.