For me the big question with having the over-12am daypart to work without creating 2 cuts is the question of what happens if you are dayparting a cut to specific days of the week, and how that would change the current operation of the software.
Let's say that I have Cut A, and I want it to only be able to play on the Monday night - Tuesday morning from 11 pm to 5 am daypart, and then Thursday night / Friday morning 11 pm to 5 am daypart. The rest of the week I do not want it to play at all. With the current setup, I create 4 identical cuts, one is dayparted to Monday 11 pm to 11:59.59 pm, another Tuesday 12:00 am to 5:00 am, the third Thursday 11:00 pm to 11:59.59 pm, and the 4th to be Friday 12:00 am to 5:00 am. This makes perfect sense to me, accurately defines when I want and don't want the cut to play. However If the overnight at midnight is assumed to be recognized, then I would need to create 2 cuts from 11 pm to 5 am daypart, and the Mondays and Thursdays. If the logic is changed what happens then if it happens ends up getting scheduled on Monday morning at 3 am? Under the current setup it would see Monday and 3 am, that would be okay, and it would not play since Monday is 11 pm to 11:59. Under the idea of spanning over midnight it might see "Monday" selected and "11 pm to 5 am", and still allow that cut to play at Monday at 3 am (where the meaning behind this daypart really is supposed to span the midnight of Monday to Tuesday) I don't mean to be critical of the idea, but I could see changing the logic at this point has the potential to break some of the dayparting and rules that people might already be running with. Lorne Tyndale > > 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 > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
