[mythtv-users] QDateTime::fromString: Parameter out of range

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/12/2008 12:35 PM, James Cummings wrote:
> I've been getting lots of errors in my logs recently which look like this:
>   
...
> QDateTime::fromString: Parameter out of range
...
> Any suggestions as to what might be causing it?    This is using
> mythtv in ubuntu hardy  0.21.0+fixes16838-0ubuntu3
>   

It's a harmless call to QDateTime::fromString() where the value being 
passed to it cannot be parsed to a valid QDateTime (i.e. this happens 
when passing empty ("" or null) strings or a "zero" date (which could 
come from MySQL) to fromString().  The invalid date/times occur when, 
i.e. your grabber doesn't provide a value for some date-related field in 
MythTV (i.e. the original_air_date).  Because the dates are invalid in 
the DB, the invalid QDate or QDateTime we get is appropriate.

It's probably not worth worrying about as a) it's harmless and b) the 
QDate::fromString() and QDateTime::fromString() handling in Qt4 has been 
much improved, so trunk will probably (eventually) be fixed more simply 
than 0.21-fixes.  However, we have unchecked arguments passed to the 
fromString() functions throughout Myth, so a piecemeal approach to 
"fixing" them is not appropriate.

See http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3478 .

Mike