Recordings starting late for shows

I’ve noticed some or all of my recordings starting late lately. NBC nightly news for example, the recording starts part way into the broadcast when I start to watch the recording. Is this a setting I’m missing somewhere? I have he recordings set to start on time. I could set it to record earlier but I’m wondering why it would do it in the first place.

Do those recordings have a "Delayed" label showing on them?

Nothing that I can see. It happens everyday with this recording lately. Trying to upload a picture of the recording for later tonight.

Interesting.

Do those recordings actually have a duration of 30 minutes?

Have you checked a live feed to make sure that the channel is airing the right content at the right time?

Usually 30 mins time slots and the time slot on the channel menu does line up with the correct time. I compared to a spectrum box to channels on my phone and the streams are within a couple of seconds of each other

Check the DVR log to see when it actually recorded the airing, start to finish.
If your DVR Server Date, Time and Time zone are correct, the timestamps in the log will be correct.
If your source for that show is an HDHR tuner, you could also verify in the HDHR System log when it recorded (HDHR log is in UTC time, Channels DVR log is in your local time).

Think I found the problem. Windows stopped syncing time automatically on the machine I’m running it on.

I use time.google.com as a NTP Server for all my devices

And use this website to see how accurate my time is

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