augment_timezone defaults to "Null"

[Craig]

augment_timezone is written with the assumption that it will always be used with mythtv.

i use shephere with xmltv2vdr to populate the program listings for my VDR setup, so have no mythtv config and no mythtv mysql database with a settings table to fetch the TimeOffset? value from.

this results in all xmltv records without an explicit timezone being set to GMT. in particular, this screws up listings for ABC1 & ABC2.

i've edited the augment_timezone script by adding:

$opt->{timeoffset} = '+1000';

near the start of the script. that fixes the problem, but causes shepherd to complain about augment_timezone being "tainted". it also means that i will have to make the same edit after every update of augment_timezone, and again whenever daylight savings starts or finishes.

i've also tried editing shepherd.conf to add:

'timeoffset' => '+1000'

to the config => { ... } stanza for augment_timezone. unfortunately, that is ignored and then removed the next time shepherd is run.

what's needed is a way for shepherd to manually specify augment_timezone's timeoffset option. this should be relatively easy since a_t already accepts it as a command line option.

[anonymous]

Does this help?

​http://svn.whuffy.com/index.cgi/wiki/FAQ#CanIsetsomedefaultoptions

[Craig]

i've just run:

./shepherd --component-set augment_timezone:timeoffset='+1000'

and edited augment_timezone back to what it was.

shepherd has already run today, so i'll wait until tomorrow to find out if it works.

[Craig]

that seems to work fine here.