Comments on: Time zone correction and mountain time

By: Rock

Rock — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:33:32 +0000

I am having troubles with mountain time. I was wondering if you could write a code that uses tv guide as the base of the time for MST. I know that MST is confusing, and listening to the advertisements for tv shows won’t even tell me when the correct time a show is on, but if you go to tv.yahoo.com or tvguide.com it is able to tell the correct times for the shows.

By: Ryan Connolly

Ryan Connolly — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:05:28 +0000

Hi first let me say that I’ve had your app for a couple months now and would die without it lol. I live in Anchorage, Alaska and we have our very own time zone all to ourselves lol. Normally every show is just off by an hour. So say it says that House starts at 9 I know it starts at 8. This is cuz we get our shows an hour before westcoast time but it’s really the same. But if I activate time zone correction it goes back four hours from east coast time. So normally it says 9 but then it would say 5… What I like is what another commented said. Let us choose how far we want to put back the time, either one or two and so on. Also I would love to have PUSH NOTIFICATIONS!!! Please please please! I would buy another app if I had to lol thanks again for this amazing app!!!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:49:55 +0000

I too live in Denver. I really like the app, but I also get very frustrated by the inaccurate air times for shows here in Denver.

It seems to be like there are a few possible solutions to this problem:

1. When downloading information, include the actual air time for the local time zone rather than always starting with New York (ET). Perhaps that isn’t possible due to the source of the data (?)…

2. Rather than a yes/no option for correcting for timezones, allow the user to actually specify the number of hours to add or subtract from the ET. So if something air at 9pm ET but at 8pm MT, I can go in to that show and set “Offset: -1″.

3. Select a different broadcast city. I suspect if I were to select Chicago as my broadcast city (CT), the shows would be more accurate.

I listed these in the order I’d like to seem the considered. #1 would be best and #2 would be okay. I’m not crazy about #3 as the solution.

Just my two cents! Good app…probably great for those that live on the east coast.

By: Michael Lucas-Smith

Michael Lucas-Smith — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:57:08 +0000

It looks like the dashboard widget has died again – the iphone version is working fine though.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:04:11 +0000

Great app, but Denver time still incorrect. For as long as I can remember (25+ years), primetime as started an hour earlier (7pm). Seems like an easy rule if Denver is selected as the broadcast city. Overall, though, a minor issue.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:47:08 +0000

@William Hook

Actually, Australia is not the only place in the world with an irregular time zone, but it does have three (+8:45, +9:30, +10:30). Here’s a full list of time zones, and the irregular ones are scattered around the world:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zones

By: Dave Prentice

Dave Prentice — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:45:54 +0000

Using Steven’s advice, living in Phoenix, my shows are showing at the correct time. Unfortunately, the iphone version does not have an option to change broadcast city. Could this feature be added?

If I could switch the broadcast city for denver on my iphone I should be able to see the correct time.

Remember prime time starts at 7pm in Phoenix and the rest of AZ.

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:13:45 +0000

btw, a great app!

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:11:44 +0000

I live in Tucson, AZ. The only way I have ever gotten the times correct was to use Denver as the city with time zone correction on. After reading this page, I 1. unchecked the time zone correction box… the time went back to one hour later than is accurate. 2. changed the city to phoenix and unchecked the box… an time is off one hour. 3. re checked the box with phoenix as the city and it is one hour late. 4. changed it back to Denver and show start time is accurate. Remember, we don’t change time in AZ for DST and are effectively on PST although our shows are still broadcast an hour earlier like Mountain time. FYI

By: Mike Lewis

Mike Lewis — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:45:00 +0000

I live in the Mountain Time zone (in the forgotten part of Texas that isn’t on Central Time) and I’ve never enabled time-zone correction in TV Forecast because it’s so erratic for Mountain Time. (Not your fault, it’s the way the individual channels program their nights.)

Here, cable shows are usually two hours ahead from the published Eastern Time start (i.e. Mythbusters starts at 9 p.m. Eastern Time, but at 7 p.m. Mountain Time). But, network shows are one hour ahead from the published Eastern Time starts (Survivor starts at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, but at 7 p.m. Mountain Time). Then there’s the whole issue of many cable channels re-running their primetime shows again three hours later so that the Pacific Coast gets Mythbusters at 9 p.m. Pacific Time (and I get to re-watch it at 10 p.m. Mountain Time).

In short, maybe there’s a way to establish different “corrections” for network versus cable shows, OR on a per-network basis. Alternatively, does TVRage offer this information already? Finally, and I apologize if I missed how to do this already, but is there a way to change whether time-zone correction is applied on an already added show without re-adding the program in TV Forecast?

Thanks for all your work, Matt. TV Forecast is one of the most-accessed apps on my phone.