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Originally Posted by spiderplant
The slightly flippant answer is "because days start at midnight".
It's a consequence of the way DVB defined it. At midnight (GMT), you have to throw away the data for the day just ended, then move day 1 to day 0, day 2 to day 1, and so on. If it was delayed to 4am, you'd have no guide data for 4 hours.
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The problem though is not the guide being current / out of date. After all my standard V box effectively gets no usable guide anyway for a couple of hours after midnight due to it's pant's update procedure (but that is a separate issue). It's the fact that the V+ can't be controlled for the few minutes around midnight as the updating overloads it. Trying to stop / rewind / Fast forward / play any recording at that time (trying to get past the recorded adverts for example) is an impossibility. The V+ is a great bit of kit, but this midnight lack of responsiveness is a significant annoyance.