<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>I have temporarily fixed it by putting a "-1" in the "record early" field, but I
<br>was wondering if we could add a global feature that "fixes" such data from zap2it -<br>a "round to the nearest hour" (or round to the nearest half-hour for 31 min<br>shows)?</blockquote><div><br>
There's a problem with this logic in that, rarely, shows do in fact go
longer. There have been several episodes of Lost and similar
shows that go for anywhere from 1 to 5 minutes past the hour, and it's
not just a case of running over, they're actually displayed that way in
time listings, and one week Lost was actually advertised as being a
special "extended version." So you could still fix the starting
times, except that you would need the 'fix' to determine whether it's
an hour or half hour show. What if it's 15 or 45 minutes?
(again, not the norm certainly, but there are definitely 15/45 min
timeslots, as well as other unusual slots, and it gets even worse if
you want to include any premium cable channels like HBO, which
routinuely start at pretty much any time they want.)<br>
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Not trying to shoot the idea down, but it's certainly not a trivial problem.<br>
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-Mike<br>
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