Re: Daylight savings ending not being accounted for in grab_na

I'll look into this during the weekend.
jerry

--On Friday, October 25, 2002 09:15:25 AM -0400 "Brian J. Murrell" 
<b28c2c09298b5c1edb4dd6bc76407daa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Daylight savings ends here in (most of?) North America at 2:00am Oct.
> 27th, however listings grabbed from Zap2it after that time are still
> having their start/stop times labeled with daylight savings time.
>
> Just as a for example:
>
> <programme start="20021027210000 EDT" stop="20021027220000 EDT"
> channel="5 WSTM">   <title>Law &amp; Order: Criminal Intent</title>
>   <sub-title>Chinoiserie</sub-title>
>   <desc>The detectives' investigation of an immigrant's murder leads them
> to an art-antiques smuggling ring.</desc>   <category>Crime</category>
>   <audio>
>     <stereo>stereo</stereo>
>   </audio>
>   <subtitles type="teletext" />
>   <rating system="VCHIP">
>     <value>14</value>
>   </rating>
> </programme>
>
> This is Sunday evening (supposed to be at 9:00pm), clearly after DST
> ends here, but notice the start and stop times are still given with an
> EDT specification.
>
> Most any (correct) time conversion utility will localize this time
> into 8:00pm rather than 9:00pm because when it is EST and you convert
> a time specified as EDT, the time conversion accounts for that.
>
> b.
>
> --
> Brian J. Murrell