[mythtv-users] find_orphans.py broken on 32 bit x86?

[Tom Dexter]

On 11/1/18, Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-10-31 at 17:02 -0400, Jay Harbeston (ISeePeople) wrote:
>> I agree with what you mentioned, but I bet there is still something
>> fishy about time zone.  Would be interesting to see what happens when
>> you try this utility in 4+ hours. I am guessing the date will be in
>> the past and will work fine.
>
> Timezones + Python reminds me of:
> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13299
> https://lists.gt.net/mythtv/users/619636
>
> Basically the MythTV.datetime module had a bug where it didn't handle
> timezones, this is now fixed but many scripts had workarounds of
> various kinds which may now need to be removed. Since find_orphans.py
> is not in-tree maybe it needs to be checked for this?
>
> Ian.
>

If it does, it's certainly not related to the failure I was
experiencing. As noted in other replies that's clearly being caused by
something in the delete logic of the MythTV python attempting to
convert bookmarkupdate with the default value of 0000-00-00 00:00:00.

Tom