Re: [Xmltv-devel] Daylight saving time (again)

[Michael H. <lag...@la...>]

Robert Eden schrieb:
> --- Michael Haas <lag...@la...> wrote:
>> My data source tells me that their data always refers to the time
>> zone in which the show is broadcast, eg they already account for DST
>> changes.
> 
> In that case I would leave off the time offset.
> 
> Oops..from the DTD:
>> All dates and times in this DTD follow the same format, loosely based
>> on ISO 8601.  They can be 'YYYYMMDDhhmmss' or some initial
>> substring, for example if you only know the year and month you can
>> have 'YYYYMM'.  You can also append a timezone to the end; if no
>> explicit timezone is given, UTC is assumed.  Examples:
>> '200007281733 BST', '200209', '19880523083000 +0300'.  (BST ==
> +0100.)
> 

There's another reason why this won't work: I need to specify the time
offset if I want baseline compliance.
http://xmltv.org/wiki/xmltvcapabilities.html