expectingtofly wrote: > It's a bit of a convoluted answer to that. This has caught me out a > couple of times. > I get the duration of a track as a minutes in text e.g "00:04:00" from > the Virgin API. I use a simple convenient trick to convert that into > seconds using perl function that will convert a date/time string into > the number of seconds since 01/01/1970. For a simple "00:04:00" without > the date that should just give me the straight seconds. That usually > works, but some operating systems remember that there was no GMT time > in 1970 ! They were experimenting with british summer time all year > round !!! > > So actually your Raspbian Operating System is right, your windows 10 is > wrong and so was my picoreplayer installation! > > Anyway, sorry that was probably a more indepth answer than you were > expecting. > The lesson I learnt was to stop being a bit lazy and stop using that > trick to calculate seconds from a time string.
Interesting. When that BST experiment took place they gave us school kids a fluorescent sash to wear when walking to school in the mornings [emoji3]. So if you had produced this plugin a couple of months later we wouldn't have found the issue until the clocks went back. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slartibartfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35609 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113974 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
