And it works for me too! Ray
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:owner- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Webster > Sent: 03 April 2009 10:12 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [backstage] Overlapping schedules > > I should have added that days running from 05:00 to 04:59 is > completely fine for me - and is typically the way that other sites > present (naturally with some variation around the precise time > depending on when they consider their new day programmes starting). > > Paul > > -- > Sent from my phone > > On 3 Apr 2009, at 07:05, Paul Webster <[email protected]> wrote: > > > All of which I understand as a statement of how it is - but it is a > > real annoyance because of the change of how it was, with "What's On." > > I process TV schedlude web pages from over 100 European channels and > > all have their quirks but none have the overlapped times. I have put > > in a partial workaround for the overlap - but chaning a single HTTP > > get into one for each programme is beyond what is feasible for my > > script. > > Maybe I'll take a look at the RadioTimes feed to see if it includes > > both more detail (for TV) and local radio. > > > > Paul > > -- > > Sent from my phone > > > > On 3 Apr 2009, at 00:24, Paul Clifford > <[email protected] > > > wrote: > > > >> We wanted to have the schedules run midnight-midnight, but as I > >> recall > >> the networks wanted programmes starting in the early hours of the > >> morning to be shown as part of the previous day's schedule, and we > >> ended up with the compromise you see on the site: midnight to > >> midnight > >> plus 5 hours. > >> > >> The machine readable representations (currently .xml, .json, .yaml) > >> may change to midnight-midnight in the next few months as a side > >> effect of other changes, but you can ignore the extra 5 hours by > >> skipping anything where the start time is on a different date to the > >> one you're interested in. > >> > >> You can only get the short synopsis through the schedule, but the > >> medium and long synopsis values can be fetched from the RDF > >> representations of the episode pages. If the "pid" of the episode > is > >> b00jbkkj, the RDF will be at > >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jbkkj.rdf and the three synopsis > >> variations will be in <po:short_synopsis>, <po:medium_synopsis>, and > >> <po:long_synopsis>. Unfortunately that means 1 request for a > >> schedule, and N subsequent requests for each episode in that > >> schedule, > >> but the medium and long synopsis strings aren't intended for use in > >> schedules, so they're unlikely to be added to the schedule data > >> views. > >> > >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Paul Webster <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> When What's On was summarily closed I posted some thoughts to the > >>> relevant > >>> blog > >>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/12/whats_on_is_off.html > >>> ... none of which got a response. > >>> So - I thought I'd try here hoping that a BBC person can help out. > >>> > >>> One was: > >>> Problem with new pages compared to "What's On" ... the schedules > >>> overlap. > >>> i.e. days start at midnight but continue until 3am > >>> please make it midnight-midnight or start new day 05:00 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> As an example see: > >>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes/schedules/2009/04/03 > >>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes/schedules/2009/04/04 > >>> > >>> > >>> and another was: > >>> Another annoying difference when compared to "What's On" - only > >>> providing > >>> 1-2 line synopsis. > >>> If there a modifier available to the URL (e.g. reallyfulldetails) ? > >>> > >>> > >>> Paul Webster > >>> > >>> - > >>> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > >>> unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html > >>> . Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail- > archive.com/[email protected]/ > >>> > >> > >> - > >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > >> please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html > >> . Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail- > archive.com/[email protected]/ > > - > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > > please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html > > . Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail- > archive.com/[email protected]/ > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail- > archive.com/[email protected]/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
