The day of a timer is now stored as a full date in ISO notation

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/vdr.5 b/vdr.5
index db33a157..5333be7c 100644
--- a/vdr.5
+++ b/vdr.5
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@
 .\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with the
 .\" vdr distribution.
 .\"
-.\" $Id: vdr.5 1.34 2005/01/23 13:31:40 kls Exp $
+.\" $Id: vdr.5 1.35 2005/03/19 15:20:47 kls Exp $
 .\"
-.TH vdr 5 "19 Dec 2004" "1.3.18" "Video Disk Recorder Files"
+.TH vdr 5 "19 Mar 2005" "1.3.23" "Video Disk Recorder Files"
 .SH NAME
 vdr file formats - the Video Disk Recorder Files
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -231,8 +231,13 @@ commands, the channels are given as numbers.
 .B Day
 The day when this timer shall record.
 
-If this is a `single-shot' timer, this is the day of month on which this
-timer shall record. This must be in the range \fB1...31\fR.
+If this is a `single-shot' timer, this is the date on which this
+timer shall record, given in ISO notation (\fBYYYY-MM-DD\fR), as in:
+
+.B 2005-03-19
+
+For compatibility with earlier versions of VDR this may also be just the day of month
+on which this timer shall record (must be in the range \fB1...31\fR).
 
 In case of a `repeating' timer this is a string consisting of exactly seven
 characters, where each character position corresponds to one day of the week
@@ -245,6 +250,7 @@ cause the timer to record on that day. Example:
 will define a timer that records on Monday thru Friday and does not record
 on weekends. The same result could be achieved with \fBABCDE\-\-\fR (this is
 used to allow setting the days with language specific characters).
+Note that only letters may be used here, no digits.
 
 The day definition of a `repeating' timer may be followed by the date when that
 timer shall hit for the first time. The format for this is \fB@YYYY\-MM\-DD\fR,