[mythtv-users] Filenames and UTC

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/30/2013 05:48 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
> Since switching my main box to 0.26, and with DST now in force in the 
> UK, I'm running into cases where the filename being used to access a 
> recording is based on local start time, and the process fails.
>
> One example is in my mythDVBcut script; it ought to be changed but at 
> present I can correct on entry.

I'm guessing here you mean you're correcting the user job command, as 
described in the release notes at

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Release_Notes_-_0.26#Special_Notices_.26_Instructions

>   Another is in MythArchive:
>
> Node = starttime, Data = 2013-04-01T20:28:00+01:00
>
> Pre-processing recording 5: '/mnt/sam1/recb/1002_20130408202800.mpg'
>
> Result: 34, Command was mytharchivehelper -q -q --getfileinfo --infile 
> "/mnt/sam1/recb/1002_20130408202800.mpg".......
>
> where the filename is actually 1002_20130408192800.mpg
>
> There are clearly many ways of mending this; I looked on the wiki and 
> found things like %PROGSTARTUTC%  for use in setting up a user job, 
> but it isn't clear how I would use it in the cases above.
>
> Can anyone recommend a simple general solution that already exists? 
> bash and/or python wanted.

So you're saying MythArchive itself is not using the proper times?  
You're not talking about your own custom code or anything?

Mike