emby-server epg is displaying programs 4 hours ahead of debian linux host time

[utiac 7]

Emby server is running on this host, current date displayed below.

th@embyvirt:~$ date
Mon Jan 27 12:14:57 AST 2025

The server was restarted at 11:36 AST 2025. Please note the server log (embyserver.txt) shows the correct time, as per this excerpt:

2025-01-27 12:29:07.170 Info SharedHttpPipelineSource: SharedHttpPipelineSource is done streaming.

2025-01-27 12:29:07.170 Info SharedHttpPipelineSource: Deleting temp files /var/lib/emby/transcoding-temp/1bbcd4e3ffd14faea2c304235fe0c042/0000000.ts, /var/lib/emby/transcoding-temp/1bbcd4e3ffd14faea2c304235fe0c042/0000001.ts, /var/lib/emby/transcoding-temp/1bbcd4e3ffd14faea2c304235fe0c042/0000002.ts, /var/lib/emby/transcoding-temp/1bbcd4e3ffd14faea2c304235fe0c042/0000003.ts, /var/lib/emby/transcoding-temp/1bbcd4e3ffd14faea2c304235fe0c042/0000004.ts, /var/lib/emby/transcoding-temp/1bbcd4e3ffd14faea2c304235fe0c042/0000005.ts

2025-01-27 12:29:07.173 Info App: AppendExtraLogData - Read graph file: /var/lib/emby/logs/ffmpeg-directstream-fa74cdb9-8d56-46e9-ab63-767bbc9b6548_1graph.txt

2025-01-27 12:29:07.174 Info App: AppendExtraLogData - Deserialized GraphData fileStream: 27.000 bytes Graph Count: 0

2025-01-27 12:29:07.174 Info App: AppendExtraLogData - File Deleted

2025-01-27 12:29:07.176 Info App: ProcessRun 'StreamTranscode fa74cd' Process exited with code 0 - Succeeded

 

Here is a an EPG screenshot taken within a minute or two:

Note that Emby is providing the guide data and I have made no changes to this setup for quite a long time.

Edited January 27, 2025 by utiac
added additional info

[Luke 42077]

Hi, what guide data are you using?

[utiac 7]

If you mean what Emby sources, they are:

CAN-0001994-X and CAN-0005993-X

USA-ECHOST-X and USA-65256-X

GBR-1000016-DEFAULT

It's necessary to use (portions of) all of these guides to get the widest EPG coverage possible.

Please note I have changed nothing in many months to introduce the behaviour described in original post.

I run a second server instance at home here using only CAN-0001994-X,  USA-ECHOST-X and GBR-1000016-DEFAULT for guide data and it too has the four hour difference. Both instances are run from the same debian linux host, although one instance is virtualized.

 

[utiac 7]

Ok, I found the issue, which has nothing to do with Emby. The issue described was happening only when using Firefox browser to access Emby server content. Apparently I made a change to Firefox configuration that triggered the incorrect time, as described here:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1253204

I apologize for the noise.

 

[Luke 42077]

Hi, thanks for following up.