Well, mistakes happen to everyone, but I would argue that the fewer steps necessary in doing anything, the less likely it is for mistakes to occur, and all the less labor necessary in an industry that clearly cannot generally afford to hire help at living wages anymore. Creating 2 cuts and dayparting them differently is significantly more steps subject to error than just dayparting a cart with a single cut specifying an overnight interval that crosses midnight.
Let the occasional careless worker explain himself if he errs; it is just as likely that he would use 00:00:00 to define midnight as the end time, thereby invalidating cart play between 10:00pm and midnight, instead of remembering that the only valid entry for a midnight ending is 23:59:59. I would have made that mistake myself had I not experimented first. One bone I have always picked with software makers since computers have become desktop pervasive, is that every field of entry ought to have the valid units of entry specified (e.g. how many decimals deep can I go?) along with the upper and lower limits of acceptable values defined for all users to see. Having to guess, causes mistakes and lots of wasted time experimenting to find out. The only time I ever saw enough of that kind of documentation was in the early desktop software that came out of Xerox--their Ventura Publisher was one. --Chuck W. On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 10:54:48 -0400 John Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2016-10-15 at 10:23 -0400, Chuck wrote: > > > > Nevertheless, I still agree with Cowboy that 22:00 to 06:00 should > > be a workable single dayparting entry since we are faced with the > > FCC's separation of the day into the 2 divisions. It will be a lot of > > work to copy cuts and daypart each separately, instead of just setting > > one time period for non-safe-harbor hours (which crosses Midnight) > > with a single entry for a single cut cart. > > well, if we are voting, I vote NO, as 12 to 6 am crosses days, vs using > the simple 24 hour day clock... The computer can probably do it just > fine, but if an operator inadvertently scheduled a day-part of 10 to > 6....you might have some explaining to do... _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
