[mythtv] Question about the "year" field in the program table

[John Pullan]

On 23/08/05, Bruce Markey <bjm at lvcm.com> wrote:
> John Pullan wrote:
> > Could someone explain what it's meant to represent please ? I'm
> > working on improving one of the DVB EIT fix up routines and I was
> > wondering if placing the year a film was released in this field was
> > appropriate.
> 
> That's the correct usage.
> 
> The field in the program table is actually called "airdate" which
> is misleading but that is what it was named from the early XMLTV
> data. Internally it is a QString "year" in ProgramInfo objects
> and is used to store the year of release for a film. It may have
> no meaning for any other type of program other than a movie.
> 
Thanks,
(I read the type rather than the name, doh)
-- 
John