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Upcoming movie returning as now playing
posted by fmilioniSTAFFMOD on February 20, 2017 at 1:02 PM
Hello, i'm having problems with the API and this may be a major issue. Today is 20/Feb/2017 and when I call https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/now_playing?api_key=[MY_DEV_APIKEY]&language=pt-BR&page=1®ion=BR the movie ID 376867 returns, but it's release date is 23/Feb/2017. This doesn't happen every call, it's a bit random.
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 20, 2017 at 3:34 PM
I have another open post about this but couldn't find it... anyways, I believe there's a date/time rounding problem at a very low level that is making the date alternate between "this Wednesday" and "next Wednesday".
It's kind of a complicated issue though which is why it's not just a simple fix. Any who, I'm aware of it.
Upcoming and now playing are both just pre-made discover queries though, so if you want to build a custom date range, you can do that and replicate everything else about these methods yourself.
Reply by fmilioni
on February 20, 2017 at 4:01 PM
I'll try with discovery. Thanks for your time!