Episodes past midnight misleading

gazza911 wrote 9 years ago: 1

Now, I know how the times work, that we enter it in as the day before and that's fine, I understand that (if you have set a timezone, the correct day + time is shown in the calendar & there's a secondary attribute for the API called timestamp), however when looking at an episode that is past midnight, the way it shows on the episode page is misleading, for example:

http://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/804488/dansai-bunri-no-crime-edge-1x01-sleeping-beauty - This aired at 24:30 on 3rd April 2013 - or 00:30 on 4th April 2013 - but whichever way you look at it, that's not how its shown on the page, which is Apr 3, 2013 at 00:30.

I'm not suggesting that how we add the underlying data should be changed, just that it should be displayed properly on the episode page.

JuanArango wrote 9 years ago: 1

gazza911 wrote:
Now, I know how the times work, that we enter it in as the day before and that's fine, I understand that (if you have set a timezone, the correct day + time is shown in the calendar & there's a secondary attribute for the API called timestamp), however when looking at an episode that is past midnight, the way it shows on the episode page is misleading, for example:
http://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/804488/dansai-bunri-no-crime-edge-1x01-sleeping-beauty - This aired at 24:30 on 3rd April 2013 - or 00:30 on 4th April 2013 - but whichever way you look at it, that's not how its shown on the page, which is Apr 3, 2013 at 00:30.
I'm not suggesting that how we add the underlying data should be changed, just that it should be displayed properly on the episode page.

I understand what you are referring to, will talk to david and jan about this :)

david wrote 9 years ago: 1

It is indeed quite confusing, though I don't know if any of the alternatives are any less confusing. The way it's currently displayed on the episode page is the same way the data is entered when creating an episode - which is the same way TV guides use to list episodes airing after midnight.

I'll leave this open for additional feedback, but I'm moving it out of the Bugs forum.

gazza911 wrote 9 years ago: 1

What about also showing the airstamp (as it is called in the API) underneath it?

Or alternatively have a question mark / similar help icon next to the airdate, with a mouseover / hover event (or if you're not bothered about the design, just the title HTML attribute) that shows either the airstamp or a message about how the times are shown.