[mythtv] Question about the "year" field in the program table
Torbjörn Jansson
torbjorn.jansson at mbox200.swipnet.se
Tue Aug 23 20:49:09 UTC 2005
mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org <> wrote:
> Bruce Markey wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I think you will also find that the field is used for TV Shows and TV
> Series. It give the original air date for a show and the original air
> date for each episode in a series.
>
I think you have mixed up the filed airdate and originalairdate, the first
one is only a year, the second one is a date.
Now that i think about it, i wounder if i'm doing the right thing in the
eitfixup4 function. I think there is a year field i'm ignoring.
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