Comments on: TV Forecast 2.2.1

By: Matt Comi

Matt Comi — Wed, 23 May 2007 02:13:25 +0000

I’ve discovered the source of the day calculation error to be daylight saving. It was not introduced by 2.2, but people have only just started noticing it because a lot of TV shows are ending.

When calculating the difference between two dates (with times set to midnight) the result is usually a whole number of days… unless the two dates cross a daylight saving boundary!

The first person to mention this to me was running Leopard so I assumed it was Leopard specific given that I wasn’t seeing the issue. But the real reason I wasn’t seeing it is because Perth doesn’t have daylight saving! Thanks Ryan for helping me to track this down.

I will be releasing an update shortly.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 23 May 2007 01:59:15 +0000

Is Battlestar Galactica perhaps the only show at the moment that actually has its next scheduled episode in 2008?

By: eduo

eduo — Tue, 22 May 2007 20:02:12 +0000

I just wanted to pitch in that I’m getting the same weird decimal error in Galactica, and also that I’m in Tiger in a Core Duo iMac 20″. No leopard betas here!

By: Matt Comi

Matt Comi — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:52:48 +0000

@Stephanie: The Timezone of each show is defaulted to Eastern (New York) and it only needs to be adjusted in the case that the TV show is not coming from an eastern feed. In your case, clicking ‘perform time zone correction’ and leaving each show’s individual time zone set to New York will do the trick – it will adjust the time from eastern to central.

By: Matt Comi

Matt Comi — Tue, 22 May 2007 01:25:14 +0000

@Thomas & @Stephanie: That’s very odd. I use Tiger (on my Powerbook G4) and what you’re describing doesn’t happen for me. The first person to raise that issue was using Leopard so I assumed that it was Leopard quirk. I’ll look into it.

@Kerri: Unfortunately no – running two instances is not supported; TV Forecast will only maintain one set of preferences. I would suggest that you limit your forecast to 20 or so TV shows using the drop down menu on the back so that it only displays the next 20 shows to air.

By: Kerri

Kerri — Mon, 21 May 2007 23:23:40 +0000

Hi there, I absolutely love the TV Forecast widget as I watch a lot of shows and can never keep track of them. Just wondered if there was a way to get it to scroll as I can’t fit the whole thing on my screen. I have tried opening another widget alongside it to put different shows in which works until I restart; it then just shows the same in both. Is this possible?
Many thanks.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:51:38 +0000

I’m getting the decimal for Battlestar as well, and I’m using Tiger.

I’m also seeing shows remain on Eastern time even after I’ve changed the time zone to Central (Austin) for each one.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 21 May 2007 18:58:43 +0000

No, Tiger on an old, old iBook G3. No Leopard.

But I will try your idea anway.

By: Michael Zuccaro

Michael Zuccaro — Mon, 21 May 2007 17:41:28 +0000

Damn Matt! You’re FLASH fast!

I just wrote you yesterday and BAM! You got a new version out fixing the ‘cancelled series but remaining episodes’ glitch!

I’m duly impressed!

graZie!

By: Matt Comi

Matt Comi — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:28:25 +0000

@Thomas: I would guess that you’re using a beta build of Leopard. This is an odd quirk caused by the Javascript implementation in Leopard. I will be sure to address it in a future version. If you would like to fix it in the meantime, here is how:

In TV Forecast.wdgt/Widget you will find DateTime.js. Modify line 405 from:
return days;
to:
return Math.round(days);

I believe this should do the trick for Leopard users.