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Re: Daylight savings ending not being accounted for in grab_na: msg#00111tv.xmltv.devel
I feel compelled to get involved, its my code that has the problem after all. :) Let me (re-)state things and make sure we're all on the same page. 1. zap2it doesn't provide timezone information in its listings 2. zap2it over the time-change failed to provide listings that were consistant before or after the time-change. 3. tv_grab_na (and presumably other grabbers, currently or future ones) use Date::Manip Date_TimeZone function (which relies on TZ or `date`) 4. tv_grab_na only understands this is a string representing the timezone and appends it to the xml date strings as such. 5. tv_grab_na assumes all the grabbed listings are valid for the timezone string given back. 6. tv_grab_* "should" provide a way to grab listings from a different location (currently done by setting TZ in tv_grab_na's case). 7. if the grab spans a timezone change (ie daylight savings etc, not a different physical location), then note 5 is invalid. The result is the times for programs after the time change are incorrect. 8. since Date::Manip doesn't handle timezone changes, tv_grab_na has no way of knowing when the time change occurs. That cover everything ? I see note #2 as being the big problem, no matter what we do, the programs around the time change aren't going to work. The best we can do is fix #5. I've looked at a couple of perl packages and I see that Cal::Date looks like it might help. jerry
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