[Gtkpod-devel] libgpod bug in time handling

[Niels V. C. <vor...@ma...>]

Hi.

I was working on a patch for Gnome's Rhythmbox, that would make the iPod
able to display the date of podcast tracks. All I had to do was to set
the time_released field of Itdb_Track's associated with podcasts. But I
noticed that the iPod displayed dates off by one for some of the
podcasts. The iPod is a Fat Nano. During my investigation of this i
noticed two things:

Firstly, the libgpod code seems unable to detect the timezone of the
device. And secondly, the functions device_time_mac_to_time_t() and
device_time_time_t_to_mac() uses a timezone_shift when converting
between time representations. This is what causes the wrong dates on my
iPod. Somewhere in the code I saw a notice about iPods not handling
timezones correctly, so maybe a bug in the firmware was fixed?


Regards,
Niels