@Znix, PayPerView, and kens:
Thank you for ur input, and to a certain extent, helping making this issue more salient than it has been for quite a while, IMHO.
@dishuser:
Yes..I understood ur point in this thread and elsewhere...and...while it appears u chose to avoid answering my Q regarding whether or not ur using nfps/papaio for iptv service, and that's ok, cuz I've surmised ur not based on ur replies/posts elsewhere here on this site regarding ur apparent lack of issues with EPG Time accuracy, which is cool, I get it..ur saying the server is where the EPG Time issue lives, or where it's supposed to be handled correctly from in the first place.
@everyone:
I admit to not having dug more deeply into the mech[anics of how the EPG Timecode process works, like some of the more informed tech gurus/subject matter experts like site member kens and a few others here have...but will strive to peel the onion until I do have a better grasp of how this important function is supposed to work, and therefore be able to pose more intelligent questions to NFPS and the team as to why this issue keeps coming up over and over, year after year.
That said, after researching a bit further on the input from kens regarding a temporary work-around solution, both in this thread, and identically in another, as it pertained to using playlists and an external guide source (.xml file), which when combined with the experience Znix stated he'd had in this thread with another stb (DL Z7+), the concept of perhaps enabling the end user to use alternative EPG sources especially peaked my curiosity. Perhaps the BUZZTV software developers could implement support for the external EPG .xml file like the DL Z7+ software development team has.
Again, I'm just embarking on my journey / quest to more thoroughly understand how the EPG Data acquisition process works, including Time Domain and Referential Time Code Integrity checking, but it has made me wonder why the process being used in kens method could not be employed / implemented at the server level, and simply referenced via a field in the stb, unless manual upkeep of the playlist equivalent of a server-wide channel list / server-wide .xml EPG file would be too labor intensive.