[Xmltv-devel] About the format of start and end times in XMLTV

[Sorin O. <ov...@gm...>]

Hello everybody,

I hope you will help me clarify one thing about the start and stop
attributes of the element <programme/>. I think the answer is quite simple,
but I want to be sure I'm right.

In the DTD for XMLTV it says:

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.)

This means that the 'YYYYMMDDhhmmss' part  always represents the UTC time?
And, implicitly, if you want to see when the programme will be aired (or
will stop), then you have to add to the first part (UTC) the timezone?. And
if there is no timezone, then it means that the programme is stopped/aired
at the 'YYYYMMDDhhmmss' UTC time?

Thank you very much,
Ovidiu