For youtube videos , the video backup tool I use to dl my published videos, which that I totally own the rights to, formats the episode air date in YYYYMMDD, which Plex won’t accept. If I change it to "YYYY MM DD " ( space separated ) then Plex accepts the file and it appears in the library.
I’m wondering if Plex dev’s could allow some flexibility in the date formate, as in YYYYMMDD with no separators?
I opened a ticket with the developers of the youtube video backup tool to see if they can enable the use of different “air date” date formats, but I don’t know if it will be accepted and added as a feature.
Until then, I guess I’ll hard-code a fake air date, which means every episode will be aired on the same date.
I don’t think they will be able to do this because Plex supports ISO standards.
ISO 8601 specifies YYYY-MM-DD as the format
When you have the delimiters, 2022-04-25 and 25-04-2022 are clearly recognizable as dates. However, the latter isn’t used because 04-03-2022 is ambiguous (4-Mar-2022 or 3-Apr-2022)
Ok. I many of the applications I use, I can set the date format - think of shell print commands with formatting like printf , sprintf, and so on. as long as the application is aware of the format, it should be fine. A problem would mixing formats and that application would have to make a best effort guess at which format was used.
