[mythtv-users] Wierd stuff with listings (DirecTV guide)

[David Brieck Jr.]

The company I work for has a relationship with Zap2It for our website. I 
had the occasion to give them a call yesterday about some problems we 
were having with our URL being changed. She mentioned that they had a 
Leap Year bug on the 29th which caused problems for users. This involved 
cookies that were trying to be set for Feb 29, 2006.

My interpretation of the problem is that their ASP programmers handle 
dates in a date format within their code, then convert them later on to 
the format everyone else uses. So what they probably were doing was just 
taking the current date, 2/29/04 and simply adding 2 to the year so that 
later on when they tried to convert it got screwed up somehow.

I don't see how this might have affected us here but if you were having 
a problem on Sunday this was probably it.

gabe at mustbethemoney.com wrote:
> Hey all, had a wierd problem with my guide listings.  Obviously this
> weekend, most US folks probably got hit with the website for listings
> being down.  I had a wierd thing happen to me post-that though.
> 
> There was no data for any of my channels last night.  I was unable to
> schedule anything, and my scheduled recordings did not occur.  Not a big
> deal...but my PPV listings did appear (using the ppv.pl 1 && ppv.pl 2
> command).
> 
> Now today, the exact opposite is true.  All the listings except for PPV
> are there.  If I have to choose, I will take this situation over
> yesterdays, but I would prefer all listings available.
> 
> Does anyone else using the DirecTV scripts have this problem?  If so, any
> work-arounds?
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