[mythtv-users] Archive to DVD - time format error

[John Pilkington]

On 16/11/13 04:40, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> I have been trying to create a DVD from a recording. The attempt always
> fails with a time format error. The tail of the log is something like this:
>
>     File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/utility/dt.py", line 435, in duck
>       raise TypeError("time data '%s' does not match supported formats"%t)
>         TypeError: type data '
>            2013-10-15T19:57:00-04:00
>         ' does not match supported formats
>
> (I say "something like" because I'm typing it off of the screen and I could
> be making errors. If I knew how to get the log as text I'd do that and
> copy it in.)
>
> Version is 0.27 from arch linux:
> MythTV Version : 29eab51
> MythTV Branch : fixes/0.27
> Network Protocol : 77
> Library API : 0.27.20131021-1
> QT Version : 4.8.5
>
> I looked at the mentioned dt.py file and to my python-ignorant eye it
> looks like it may be expecting a space after the time and before the
> TZ offset. But maybe not.
>
> I write a DVD from mythtv maybe once or twice a year. Often there is
> some little problem that I can naively fix, e.g. bad path to font files
> or some undefined variable or something, but this is new and harder.
>
> I've tried searching for similar problem reports but haven't seen any.
> I've waited a few weeks in case similar reports show up, or an update
> comes along to fix it. But now I'm starting to think it's something I'm
> doing wrong since I seem to be the only one.
>
> I've also tried switching themes and trying different recordings. Same
> result. And I've gone through mythsetup and config screens trying to see if
> I've got a weird date-format-related setting somewhere, but nothing has
> jumped out at me.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Yours,
> -mm-

The error message that you quote isn't familiar but I suspect you have 
this UTC problem.

  http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11758#comment:5

Try saving a backup of mythburn.py, then edit to change all instances of 
rec.starttime.isoformat() to  rec.starttime.utcisoformat()

HTH

John P