[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase: Ignoring unknown timestamp format: 20161231235960

Ian Campbell ijc at hellion.org.uk
Sun Dec 18 08:46:35 UTC 2016


On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 04:30 +0000, Mark Perkins wrote:
> 
> On 18 December 2016 1:23:31 PM Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 10:35 PM, Mike Hodson <mystica at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I personally have a differing opinion in this case.
> >
> > Getting time right is hard, and there are few
> > people willing to work through the entire process.
> 
> Without disagreeing with any of the prior posts, and whilst also agreeing 
> that the 61sec minute / leap second appears to be a valid time - I find it 
> hard to believe that Schedules Direct intended to have start / finish times 
> as per the examples posted (ie not rounded to the nearest minute). It seems 
> extraordinarily precise. Perhaps someone with a SD account can post a 
> message on the SD forums / raise a SD ticket for their input?

I copied xmltv devel and one of the SD devs has responded already.

> Is the end result that mythfilldatabase just fails to load the disagreeable 
> 
> programs? Or does it fail to load all subsequent programs? Or does it fail 
> to load any programs? I can imagine that if the latter there may be many 
> more disgruntled posts to come in the next few days as people begin to 
> notice - and the quickest work around in the next 13 odd days may be a 
> tweak at the source with the long term actions to resolve to happen 
> 'later'(tm).

I'm not 100% sure and I can't easily check since I applied the
workaround but it appeared to not add _any_ programs to that channel,
or maybe even at all.

I'll highlight this on the xmltv thread too.

Ian.


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