[mythtv-users] UTC and database starttime

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Wed Jan 22 00:04:41 UTC 2014


On 01/21/2014 03:03 PM, Yan Seiner wrote:
> I've been beating my head against UTC in python for a while now...
>
> The database returns the timestamp in this format:
>
> 2008-08-24 15:30:00-07:00
>
> However, to feed it to mythutil or transcode, I need it in UTC, all 
> smushed together:
>
> 20080824223000
>
> I've been searching in vain for some neat, clean way to convert the 
> date I get out of the database into UTC and reformat it into the 
> starttime format....
>
> How does one go about this?

Never mind; further reading and a step away and I found that you can 
supply the filename as the argument, getting around the issue altogether.

:)


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