Is it a repeat?

[dinkypumpkin]

On 30/06/2013 00:24, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
> You are of course right; but let's take this example:
> pid=b00nq7q9 (NB expires on Sun June 30th 2013 23:29Z)
>
> get_iplayer -i pid:b00nq7q9
>
> will get me:
> firstbcast:     default: 2009-11-01T22:20:00Z
>
> but also notice this line:
> lastbcast:      default: 2009-11-01T22:20:00Z
>
> which is a false statement; right now it's almost
> Sat June 29th 2013 23:00Z, so the exact previous
> time this was aired/repeated was on
> Sun 23 Jun 2013 23:30BST, i.e.
>
> 2013-06-23T22:30:00Z
>
> as found by going to
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nq7q9/broadcasts
>
> This correct transmission date is also indicated on the iPlayer
> relevant page @
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nq7q9/Fleetwood_Mac_Dont_Stop/
>
> under "More Programme Information" -> "Broadcast on"
> as "BBC Four, 11:30PM Sun, 23 Jun 2013"
>
> Why doesn't GiP show the right date? (at least on my copy of the script...)

You have found a bug there.  It looks like the metadata schema was 
changed at some point. get_iplayer ignores the repeats data because it's 
no longer in the expected format, so it never picks up the last 
broadcast date. I'll put in a fix for lastbcast.