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Ticket #10847 (accepted Bug Report - General)

Opened 11 months ago

Last modified 9 months ago

Time conversion error

Reported by: Andreas Reibring <andreas@…> Owned by: wagnerrp
Priority: minor Milestone: unknown
Component: Bindings - Python Version: Master Head
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc: Ticket locked: no

Description

After upgrading to 0.25 my old scripts using MythTV.MythXML.getProgramDetails() stopped working, giving either urllib2.HTTPError or httplib.BadStatusLine errors. (Traceback from the Python interpreter attached.) The reason seems to be that getProgramDetails() now expects the starttime argument in UTC. However, when passed a UTC starttime argument, the method returns a Program object with an incorrect starttime attribute that is neither UTC nor local time.

Example: The news program 'Rapport' starts at 19:30 local Swedish time (17:30 UTC).

>>> prog = MythTV.MythXML().getProgramDetails(u'6011', u'2012-06-20 17:30:00')
>>> print prog.title, prog.starttime
Rapport 2012-06-20 18:30:00

I believe that the problem is the time representation conversion in MythTV.utility.datetime.timestamp(). This method is calling time.mktime(), which expects a struct_time in local time as argument, with a struct_time in UTC. The problem can be resolved by calling calendar.timegm() instead. (See table on http://docs.python.org/library/time.html) Patch is attached.

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traceback (3.0 KB) - added by Andreas Reibring <andreas@…> 11 months ago.
utility.py_timeconversion.patch (636 bytes) - added by Andreas Reibring <andreas@…> 11 months ago.

Change History

Changed 11 months ago by Andreas Reibring <andreas@…>

Changed 11 months ago by Andreas Reibring <andreas@…>

comment:1 Changed 9 months ago by wagnerrp

  • Status changed from new to accepted
  • Milestone changed from unknown to 0.26

comment:2 Changed 9 months ago by wagnerrp

  • Version changed from 0.25-fixes to Master Head
  • Milestone changed from 0.26 to unknown

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