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Jo,
tv-browser ROCKS!!! AFN now shows correct times. Thank you so much!!!

It should be correct tommorrow (afternoon).

Jo,
I've been using tv-browser for years!!! great stuff! I have also had the usual problem with the AFN channels. I read the thread and the problem appears to be that your program considers the times to be GMT whereas AFN Europe broadcasts at the times listed in the rss service CET (central european time not GMT). this has the effect of throwing the AFN broadcast times off by TWO HOURS. one hour can be corrected by setting the time correction to -1 but the time still displays one hour too late. if you could adjust your program to read the AFN rss times as CET and not GMT this would fix the problem. alternately you could allow more than one hour plus or minus on the time correction feature. thank you for your help.

Ok, if it says this in the data already, then you are right and it's a bug on their side. Would be nice if some native speaker could mail them about this issue...

Their RSS data explicitly says GMT:

<airdate>2010-10-24T14:15:00 GMT</airdate>

It this is wrong I think it's better if they correct it than us ignoring this and setting the timezone to Eastern Time (or what would it be?).

Their schedule on their website: http://myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil/ScheduleChart.aspx also seems to contain errors, so they might have a general problem with the data.

If they all have US timezone, then it's a matter of our parser, which needs to convert the time to GMT.

RSS feed programming times are correct for the U.S. location of origination however due to the time difference between Europe and the U.S. it's necessary to correct by several hours for European time. I guess this is just a one off thing. That's life.

Maybe you can contact them as viewer and tell them that their times are incorrect. These are general RSS feeds for all people, not specific for TV-Browser. I can't receive the channels, so it's difficult for me.

For your info
Correct my previous posts all RSS feeds for AFN channels have a time difference of I think it's 7 hours as far as I can see - the only one that is GMT time is AFN Atlantic. In order to view at the correct CET time I have to enter a location correction of etc/GMT -7.

Thanks for your input Jo, It appears to be the AFN Movie Channel that is completely out of sync. Unfortunately I was using that as my reference. The other AFN channels are all okay - I simply adjust the CET summertime - but the Movie channel is about 7 hours out of whack which I can only adjust by changing my geo location time which of course puts everything else out. Catch 22. Such is life at least I know what's going on now. However it would be good as in this case to be able to adjust a channel individually.
gruss - spike

We get the data from here: http://myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil/RssFeeds.aspx . Could you have a look if this data is correct?

I will have a look if the data is wrong.

Hi ds10,
I've got it sorted so far, if I make my location est/GMT-7 - I can load the AFN channels in CET time but then any European channels are way out. What I really need is a way to time correct each individual channel. There is presently a channel correction possibility of plus/minus one hour wouldn't it be possible to extend this ? If I may ask - what kind of donation would be acceptable to make this feature a reality ?
gruss - spike

Thanks for the tip but unfortunately that doesn't seem work for the AFN program schedules - in order to get the correct CET time I need to set my location somewhere in the vicinity of Singapore

That's done automatically, just select the correct time zone. So if you want to see the American programs with European time select a Central Europe time zone in TV-Browser.