On 11/15/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Marshall Crocker wrote:<br><br>> I saw that too when I did my survey last month. I said I would change<br>> the update time from the morning hours to 9am - Midnight but never<br>> did. If everyone who does this survey changes then they'll end up
<br>> with everyone switching to this time and their servers will be<br>> overloaded during the 9am-Midnight hours. Maybe it's not asking<br>> everyone to do that?<br><br>Or, perhaps they're going to ask everyone to use specific times and
<br>customize those times based on the user's location (i.e. making sure<br>they specify the proper local time) and perhaps renewal date.<br><br>Just asking the whole world to use some time between 9:00am and midnight<br>
would accomplish little (because 9:00am and midnight come at different<br>times in each time zone)... Now, if they said, "Between 9am-Midnight<br>EST," that would be a different story... Also, if they really wanted to
<br>get the message out, they could have easily put some info on the forum<br>(Has anyone seen a post there? I couldn't find anything.) or even a<br>recommended download time on each user's account page.<br><br>So, I would say don't make any changes until you're explicitly asked to
<br>do so. If anyone finds any specific instructions for the community at<br>large, please let us know.<br><br>Mike<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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Here's an idea!<br>
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Just to over-complicate things, they should have an optional service
that we could add to mythfilldatabase. After completing the daily
download, it makes a request to a server somewhere (maybe zap2it would
want to host it?). The response would be the UTC time that they want
you to get the next daily update. They could keep a running frequency
chart of when they are telling people to download the listings so that
they are evenly spread throughout the day. This would have to be an
optional feature, since some people can't just get the listings at
arbitrary times. I would certainly be onboard for that, if it could be
automated somehow with cron.<br>