Comments on: TV Countdown

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 16 May 2007 19:52:00 +0000

I noticed each week LOST is displayed, the time of the show is off by an hour, according to EST. Lost comes on at 10:00 PM on the East Coast. It is shows as 9:00 PM on the Guide. Can that be fixed. Perhaps widget could have a section for folks to set according to their time-zone.

ALSO noticed American Idol is off by an hour. Comes on at 9:00PM on East Coast on Wednesdays. Guide has it at 8:00PM.

Thanks!

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 10 May 2007 04:16:08 +0000

Thanks for the fast replay Matt!

Worked perfectly.

-Ted

By: Matt Comi

Matt Comi — Thu, 10 May 2007 03:28:02 +0000

Lewis: Are they in syndication? TV Countdown and TV Forecast only track shows that are still in production.

Ted: This is an oversight in version 1.0 – I understand that eastern and pacific shows air at the same time though not simultaneously… if that makes any sense. So essentially what you need to do is disable timezone correction.

I will add the ability to do this in version 1.1 but if you would like to do this now – it is reasonably straight forward.

Open tv.js in your favorite text editor.

On line 61, you will find:

timezone_offset = timezoneDifference(”, ‘America/New_York’);

Replace this line with:

timezone_offset = 0;

This is just a fix for people on the west coast – please don’t make the change unless you are experiencing problems with the countdown.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Thu, 10 May 2007 02:38:51 +0000

The shows I’m looking for aren’t listed. What can I do?

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 10 May 2007 01:37:37 +0000

I’m also having the same problem as Kenny.

It’s still setting my times to EST.

Thanks, Ted.

By: Kenn Fong

Kenn Fong — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:36:38 +0000

On Apple.com, it says:

“**TV Countdown will automatically adjust the countdown timer to Eastern Time** so that no matter where you are – as soon as an episode goes to air, youâ€™ll know about it.”

Is there any way I could adust it to my local time, which is pacific time?

It looks handy, and I’d use it for four or five different programs if I knew I could have this in my local time.

Cheers, kenny

By: Matt Comi

Matt Comi — Tue, 08 May 2007 02:27:07 +0000

Thanks Magnus, I’ll look into that.

By: Magnus Enk

Magnus Enk — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:56:21 +0000

Hi,

nice Widget. There just seem to be a small problem – when clicking a show name or episode, it opens the link several times. Well, thats what happens to me anyway, with Firefox as default browser.