[Freevo-devel] [PATCH] Fix Time zone bug in xmltv schedule processing

[Erland Lewin]

Here is a patch for the previously described bug in handling of time zones in the +0100 form in xml files.

Note that this leaves a bug with written time zones still in the code. See a thread I started on the xmltv-devel list about the problems with interpreting time zone abbreviations:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1784917&forum_id=7180

I'm trying to get the xmltv people to make +0100 style time zone specifications mandatory, which would be the only reasonable fix to this bug as I see it.

This is my first patch to freevo, and I'm also new to Pyton so let me know if I messed up somewhere.

Krister Lagerstrom wrote:

Actually, I think the Python mx.DateTime module is probably better for
stuff like this. It is included in the newer binary Freevo releases. The
docs are on the net.

Thanks for the tip! I looked at the docs at http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/mxDateTime.html, and it looks to me as though it doesn't handle arbitrary time zones.

Regards,

Erland

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