Calendar mismatch after auto-rename with airing dates

[Cheelan]

Honestly, I noticed something kinda weird while using FileBot with TV shows that follow broadcast air dates. At first I expected everything to line up perfectly with my Plex calendar sync, like episodes showing up exactly on the right days without any mismatch, but in reality I ended up with a few strange shifts where some episodes were off by a whole day for no obvious reason.

What makes it even more confusing is that this started happening right after I switched to a different source for episode data. So I’m wondering if that might actually be the root cause, like maybe different metadata providers don’t interpret or format air dates the same way, which ends up messing with the final calendar output. I tried fixing it by refreshing all the metadata, and even re-running the rename process in FileBot from scratch, but even after that, a couple of shows still keep that same one-day offset.

I’m not really an expert in all this, I’m kinda just experimenting with different setups between Plex, FileBot, and calendar syncing tools to see what works best. So there’s also a chance I’m just missing something obvious here, I’m not ruling that out at all. It’s just something that stood out because everything looked fine at first glance, but the sync didn’t fully match reality.

That’s why I was wondering if anyone else has run into this kind of issue before, where episode air dates don’t properly align with external calendar sync tools, especially when switching between different metadata sources. I even checked out calendar sync options through syncthemcalendars.com just to compare how things are handled, but I still can’t really pinpoint where that small offset is coming from.

[rednoah]

You mean to say you found unexpected behaviour after enabling the Set creation date post-processing feature? The episode airdate is typically not relevant in the context of FileBot.


Can you give a specific episode that shows up with different airdates in different applications?


Note that you must not mix databases, e.g. you'll want to use TheMovieDB in both FileBot and Plex when naming and numbering files. Different databases might use different numbers / airdates / etc. See [FAQ] Why can I not use TheTVDB and TheMovieDB interchangeably? for details.