Leicester Prediction League Cup

[pork pie fox]

Oh I know

 

[Joe_Fox]

I think there may be a problem with the way time data is converted. Honestly, I converted the times that the posts were posted and the time came back as posted after the kick off. Jeff, can you fly out to Australia and check it? If I've got it wrong, which presuming by the rhetoric of the last few posts I surely have, then I apologise profusely. Genuine mistake (if indeed it was a mistake on my part). A new results table will follow if I've bodged it up.

 

[Joe_Fox]

Score Newcastle 1 Leicester 1
Corners 5
First goal 34
Cards 5

You missed the cut off time I'm afraid.

 

[Joe_Fox]

Here's my view of the posts. Jeff, take a look and tell me what went wrong, please.

 

[Joe_Fox]

Wednesday 7.13am conversion:

 

[Joe_Fox]

Funky Fox was after Brown Nose's post so no need to show calculation for that. I'm genuinely confused as to what had happened here. The integrity of the LPLC is of utmost importance.

 

[pork pie fox]

Classic Joe_

 

[Jeff]

I think there may be a problem with the way time data is converted. Honestly, I converted the times that the posts were posted and the time came back as posted after the kick off. Jeff, can you fly out to Australia and check it? If I've got it wrong, which presuming by the rhetoric of the last few posts I surely have, then I apologise profusely. Genuine mistake (if indeed it was a mistake on my part). A new results table will follow if I've bodged it up.

What time zone are you in?
And have you got it set up correctly here: https://talkingballs.uk/account/preferences

 

[City Fan]

Here's my view of the posts. Jeff, take a look and tell me what went wrong, please.

So they both predicted the wrong results some time after the final whistle?

God they’re dumb aren’t they.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Integrity

 

[Joe_Fox]

What time zone are you in?
And have you got it set up correctly here: https://talkingballs.uk/account/preferences

You might be in to something here Jeff:

 

[Jeff]

You might be in to something here Jeff:

You might want to change that.

 

[Joe_Fox]

I will, I'm a little surprised that talkingballs.uk doesn't recognise one's location/time zone automatically. All good, glad we got to the bottom of this. Again, apologies to all affected by this.

 

[Joe_Fox]

You might want to change that.

Jeff, I changed my time zone to my local time zone and the new time of the posts in question look even later. See attached. What's going on?

 

[Jeff]

I will, I'm a little surprised that talkingballs.uk doesn't recognise one's location/time zone automatically.

It could try to do that. But it would need to check your everyone's IP address against a database, which is not very reliable. The most reliable way is to default to UK time and let people in different locations change it in their account. Which you appear to have done, but you picked the wrong time zone.

 

[Joe_Fox]

It could try to do that. But it would need to check your everyone's IP address against a database, which is not very reliable. The most reliable way is to default to UK time and let people in different locations change it in their account. Which you appear to have done, but you picked the wrong time zone.

Understandable. Could you use location services? I changed my time zone but as I mentioned in my previous post, this made the predictions appear, to me at least, to have been posted even later. Really quite baffled by this. Here's my time zone settings:

 

[Jeff]

Jeff, I changed my time zone to my local time zone and the new time of the posts in question look even later. See attached. What's going on?

You're currently nine hours ahead of UK time.

So yesterday at 4:13 AM was 7:13PM on Wednesday in the UK. The match kicked off at 7:45PM.

Your new time zone is 21 hours ahead of your old one. The time on the posts has also moved forward 21 hours.

What do you think isn't right?

 

[Jeff]

So the date stamp of posts is static and not reactive to a user's change to their time zone?

The time you see is the time in your current timezone. You can see from your screenshot that the times changed when you changed your timezone. The times changed by 21 hours, because you changed your timezone by 21 hours.

 

[Joe_Fox]

You're currently nine hours ahead of UK time.

So yesterday at 4:13 AM was 7:13PM on Wednesday in the UK. The match kicked off at 7:45PM.

Your new time zone is 21 hours ahead of your old one. The time on the posts has also moved forward 21 hours.

What do you think isn't right?

That all checks out ok. Just wondering if you can shed some light on why on Earth my time zone was set to American Samoa in the first place. That seems to have caused an awful lot of problems.

 

[Jeff]

That all checks out ok. Just wondering if you can shed some light on why on Earth my time zone was set to American Samoa in the first place. That seems to have caused an awful lot of problems.

It didn't just change by itself. And I didn't do it.
I have no idea how long it's been like that.