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Why are the dates for some TV shows different when shown on the Web vs the App
I have noticed that the App sometimes shows different dates for TV episodes in the App vs. when looking on the Web from a laptop.
For example:
Bosh Legacy Season 2
In the App shows: E1 on 20 Oct, E2 on 20 Oct, E3 on 20 Oct, E4 o 20 Sep, E5 on 20 Oct, E6 on 20 Oct, E7 on 3 Nov, E8 on 10 Nov, E9 on 20 Oct and E10 on 10 Nov
This is clearly wrong as later episodes are shown as being at earlier times.
On the Web they are displayed as: E1 on 20 Oct, E2 on 20 Oct, E3 on 27 Oct, E4 on 27 Oct, E5 on 3 Nov, E6 on 3 Nov, E7 on 10 Nov, E8 on 10 Nov, E9 on 17 Nov and E10 on 17 Nov.
I expect this version shown on the web is correct, but why the difference? You would expect they were using the same single source of truth for episode data and
Col_Needham
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2 years ago
@kjmcfall This will be due to differences in your location settings across the web and the app, plus differences in data completeness in our release date coverage. You might want to check that your settings on https://www.imdb.com/preferences/general and in your app match your actual location.
We will display local release dates where we have them, but we fall back to the earliest release date anywhere in the world if there is no specific release date which matches your location.
In the case of this series, it seems we have dates for the US and Japan across the whole of S2 and then only dates for earlier S2 episodes in the UK and Germany.
Does this explain the situation?
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