Quote Originally Posted by BruceC
I had run the settime command and the settime -rtc and rebooted, but for some reason it only came right after I pulled the plug on the power.
This seems unusual... if you wish to play with dates then I have a couple of posts on the subject. One is an
rdate(1) implementation, and the other relates to Daylight Davings Time

Quote Originally Posted by BruceC
I would be interested in experienced comments as to why the 4-8 hour part of the setup only took about 30min
The amount of time required for the database import and index is directly related to the amount of information (which, of course, is related to the number of channels and the number of days involved). A slice that has been striped to only contain Free To Air (FTA) data loads in less than two minutes. The 4-8 hours related to the US cable networks which have a large number of channels each with more than two weeks of data.

It is normal to only have a few (4) days future guide data in the database as the broadcasters to not provide easy access to future data.