Forum discussion: http://community.pbspro.org/t/holidays-file-missing-days-will-be-treated-as-all-prime/1440
Background
Holidays file has information about prime/non-prime windows for days of the week for a site. Right now, there's no documented behavior for what happens if data for any of the days is missing or if the data is inconsistent. Also, the behavior for when the year entry is missing is not clearly defined. The general use case, as well as the theme of the prime-time feature in PBS, seems to be to assume prime time if data is insufficient, so it seems like a good idea to officially enforce this behavior. It is also desired to have an empty/commented out holidays file which doesn't need to be updated every year so that it is all prime-time by default.
Proposal
Design:
New holidays file text: The holidays file will now by default be completely commented out and have the following text:
* UNCOMMENT AND CHANGE THIS TO THE CURRENT YEAR * UNCOMMENT AND ADD CALENDAR HOLIDAYS TO BE CONSIDERED AS NON-PRIME DAYS |
PBS will assume 24x7 prime-time by default now because the holidays file is commented out.