[mythtv] Display Old Original Air Dates?

David Schmidt david.schmidt.in.dallas at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 14:07:13 UTC 2007


On 2/28/07, Tony Lill <ajlill at ajlc.waterloo.on.ca> wrote:
> "Tim Musa" <opel1970 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On 2/27/07, Russell Mora <rd.mora at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>
> All the program info data the backend sends to the frontend is
> serialized by the routines I fixed. The old code converted a proper
> date to a UNIX time, and so it gets cut off at 1969-12-31. The patch
> should fix any problem with original airdates in the frontend.

Not that it matters, since you fixed it otherwise, but it's fully
legal to use negative time_t's for dates prior to the Epoch.  So you
can go back to, according to the ctime manpage, Friday December 13
20:45:52 UTC 1901.


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