Air Date Fixer — Corrects upcoming dates for your timezone outside the US

[Blueskies278 70]

Currently Alpha, Not Yet Released

 

If you're outside the US, you've probably noticed some shows appear in your Upcoming/Latest lists a day early (or late) — a show airing at 8–10pm US Eastern actually lands in the early hours of the next day in UK/European time, but Emby often shows the raw US broadcast date instead.

I originally built this as a standalone Docker container/script. After 3 months of testing ironing out the bugs, I decided it was worth turning into a proper Emby plugin so it's easier to set up and run natively.

I'm now running the plugin version on my UGEEN iDX6011 Pro through about 4 weeks of real-world testing before considering a beta release. If there's genuine interest, I'll release the first beta once testing wraps up — just wanted to gauge interest and share what's coming.

Air Date Fixer corrects this automatically, using Trakt's timezone-aware broadcast schedule data:

• Pulls each show's real broadcast timezone and converts it properly to your own local date
• Only touches US/Canada-broadcast shows — everything else is left untouched
• Works across three levels: episodes you already have files for, episodes already in your library without files yet, and future/upcoming episodes that only exist in cached metadata (so it also fixes what shows up under "Yesterday"/upcoming date headings, not just episode detail pages)
• Runs automatically in the background — no manual scripts or cron jobs needed
• Self-heals if Emby's own metadata refresh reverts a date

Requires a (free) Trakt account and API app (no VIP needed) — this is needed because Trakt is the only source that tells the plugin what time of day and timezone a show actually airs in (e.g. "8pm US Eastern"), which is the missing piece needed to work out whether it lands on a different calendar day once converted to your local time. Metadata sources like TMDB only give a plain date with no time/timezone attached, so there's nothing there to calculate the correction from.

Edited July 11 by Blueskies278

[sh0rty 764]

Really interested. The upcomng section for non US users was always bothering me. There was a project almost a decade ago that replaced US airdates with european ones, but it unfortunately died.

[Blueskies278 70]

9 hours ago, sh0rty said:

Really interested. The upcomng section for non US users was always bothering me. There was a project almost a decade ago that replaced US airdates with european ones, but it unfortunately died.

The date issues for non-US users also bothered me. Air Date Fixer is created from the ground up. The Alpha plugin is about 97% done, just a few more tweaks.

[Blueskies278 70]

I’ve encountered a significant bug that requires a full rebuild. I apologize for the delay and will keep you updated on our progress.