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#1
Guide is showing "Paris and Versailles (Saint-Saens and Bizet)". That was last week. Today is Madrid & Belgrade (Albeniz, De Falla, Mokranjac)
#2
General Discussions / No EPG for You!
November 17, 2007, 12:50:05 AM
Readers of this forum may care to take a look at this article on ITWire...

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15371/1085/ :(
#3
XMLTV (General) / It's that time again...
October 28, 2006, 07:07:04 PM
I have examined the raw XML for this week's feed (actually taken from 7th through 7 days) and notice that the GMT values in the 'start' and 'stop' tags of the 'programme' tag are wrong on Sunday 29th (the day the world ends...?). Whilst I can correct this in my programs, I have noticed that all guides such as the JustEPG TAP for Topfield are all wrong on this Sunday - before DST starts, times before are correct and times after are wrong. After the user adjusts for DST, Sunday is still wrong.

Eg. ABC News on 28/10 is 20061028093000 +0000 (7PM ACST in Adelaide) but on 29/10 is given as 20061029093000 + 0000 which works out at 8PM ACDST, clearly wrong. It should be 20061029083000 + 0000 (because the program does actually begin an hour earlier, GMT)

Comments anyone?

NICK
#4
XMLTV (General) / Help with http request
July 09, 2006, 11:35:55 PM
I wonder if anyone can help here.

I currently have an Access database setup to download the ICE XML file using webget, and parse it using the ChilkatXml COM add in.

I have just noticed that this COM-addin has a "httpget" method, which is probably a better way of  getting the data rather than using shell webget.exe [address of xml file], as the shell command in VBA executes asynchronously and sometimes the file has not downloaded before I wish to proceed with the next program step.

Trouble is, I can plug in the http address but how do I put in user name and password without having to enter it at runtime? The documentation only has the parameters &start_date=<date>; · &end_date=<date> · &late_mod=<last modified time>; · &no_programs=1 etc. Are there other parameters that can be added to this cgi? (I think that it should be last_mod shouldn't it?)

Any help appreciated!

NICK