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From: T-Lit
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324689.645 in reply to 324689.641
Date: 3/23/2025 10:33:07 AM
Buckner Bandits
IV.20
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7676
I followed the instructions set out by wagner. not sure why yours sais 7:30 pm... maybe that the time on your end...

please do not withdraw, i do not want to have to go and redo all these... 1 hour difference is not a big deal.



Last edited by T-Lit at 3/23/2025 10:35:10 AM

From: MrJ

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Date: 3/23/2025 10:37:12 AM
Swan River Serpents
III.2
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Second Team:
Westopian Tigers
I followed the instructions set out by wagner. not sure why yours sais 7:30 pm... maybe that the time on your end...

please do not withdraw, i do not want to have to go and redo all these... 1 hour difference is not a big deal.




That is strange. You clearly set them at the time Wagner noted...so why are they showing 7:30pm?

Anyway, I agree. I won't withdraw.

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From: MrJ

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324689.647 in reply to 324689.645
Date: 3/23/2025 10:42:48 AM
Swan River Serpents
III.2
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340340
Second Team:
Westopian Tigers

Actually, I think it is correct!

Can anyone fault my thinking here please:

So, I am +6 on Wagner's 2:30pm = 8:30pm (my time).
T-Lit is -7 on Wagner's 2:30pm = 7:30am (T-Lit's time)

So, T-Lit's -7 plus my +6 = 13 hours difference. Therefore, 13 hours difference between T-Lit's time and my time.
He issues it at 7:30am, and then if we add 13 hours, this equals 8:30pm (my time) :-)

Mind you, it doesn't explain why it showed up as 7:30pm for me.

Last edited by MrJ at 3/23/2025 10:43:23 AM

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From: T-Lit

To: MrJ
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324689.648 in reply to 324689.647
Date: 3/23/2025 10:44:58 AM
Buckner Bandits
IV.20
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7676
I am sure daylight savings has some issues with it... US time is wacky.

Its fine, as long as we are close, there shouldnt be an issue. Lets not change things now. :-)

From: Wagner

To: MrJ
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324689.649 in reply to 324689.644
Date: 3/23/2025 10:57:24 AM
Wagner College
II.2
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205205

MrJ:
Gccsteel sent me an invite and it correctly showed 8:30pm and correct date/neutral...so I accepted and it now appears in my schedule.

MrJ:

Mmm...you've got me thinking, Wagner.

The PU invite from T-Lit showed 7:30pm. So, maybe he did do it correctly but we got the GM wrong? Afterall, you are saying that it should show 'our local time' in the invite? For me, that is 8:30pm. T-Lit's showed 7:30pm.

???

So this is exactly what amazes me, as I asked people which time zone they are located. Gccsteel mentioned UTC-5, and T-Lit "ET" (and while I can't recall if he confirmed Eastern Time is -5, it is to my knowledge).
Therefore, this makes absolutely 0 sense, if Gccsteels' match show to take place at 8.30PM your time (MrJ).
I don't understand why there would be any difference with teams located on the same time zone. So again, it does show up to you MrJ as starting 7.30PM?


MrJ:
We got the GM time wrong which is why it came through to me as 7:30pm instead of 8:30pm?

Can we check his GM time?

Sorry, but what again was this GM time, as I'm not familiar with this term?

From: Wagner

To: MrJ
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324689.650 in reply to 324689.647
Date: 3/23/2025 11:07:46 AM
Wagner College
II.2
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Actually, I think it is correct!

Can anyone fault my thinking here please:

So, I am +6 on Wagner's 2:30pm = 8:30pm (my time).
T-Lit is -7 on Wagner's 2:30pm = 7:30am (T-Lit's time)

So, T-Lit's -7 plus my +6 = 13 hours difference. Therefore, 13 hours difference between T-Lit's time and my time.
He issues it at 7:30am, and then if we add 13 hours, this equals 8:30pm (my time) :-)

Mind you, it doesn't explain why it showed up as 7:30pm for me. :/

Yes, the first part is correct, 13 hours.
The latter, as you mentioned, not so much.
I wonder if it's a thing with Daylight Savings Time, as T-lit mentioned. For me for instance official BB league matches show up as starting 15.30, 3.30PM now for a while, before we again start utilizing DST in Finland, and then for the half year or so show to be starting at 4.30PM.
However, it doesn't explain why Gccsteel's challenge shows being played at 8.30PM, and T-Lits' at 7.30PM. Any theories/solutions? Others might be affected too.

Only explanation of some sort I might come up with, is that if BB has some kind of automatic, IP based location finder in use, and it sees that one is not in his typical "home location", and changes match times to reflect that. It's a far fetched theory, but only I could come up with right now (that even might explain differences between T-Lit and Gccsteel, if either of them is not currently located at time zone GMT/UTC-5).

Last edited by Wagner at 3/23/2025 12:07:06 PM

From: Wagner

To: MrJ
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324689.651 in reply to 324689.640
Date: 3/23/2025 11:56:54 AM
Wagner College
II.2
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I have also sent all my PU invites except for Round 15...

...as T-Lit discovered, it doesn't let us do it that far ahead. It seems that the Round 15 games can be sent sometime next weel.

Same goes for me, all challenges have now been sent (that I'm responsible of) for the regular season, except for the last round, Round 15. This is surely the only downside of being well ahead of time in this match organizing process - and if this is the worst consequence we'll face, I guess we'll live. ;)

From: Chucarro

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324689.652 in reply to 324689.648
Date: 3/23/2025 11:15:48 PM
Club Trouville
II.1
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sorry T-Lit, i reject your Match because of the time before i see this message.
can you send the invitation again?


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324689.653 in reply to 324689.652
Date: 3/23/2025 11:26:58 PM
Club Trouville
II.1
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I've done sending all challenges (except the one on 26 may)

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324689.654 in reply to 324689.653
Date: 3/24/2025 5:16:30 AM
Rajdersi
III.11
Overall Posts Rated:
5353
Second Team:
Rajdersi II
Hi,

thank you for your effort during last days.
I will prepare my intvitations this week.

From: MrJ
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Date: 3/24/2025 5:46:13 AM
Swan River Serpents
III.2
Overall Posts Rated:
340340
Second Team:
Westopian Tigers

I think there is one more thing that we should all check too when inviting and accepting PU games:

This is more for every manager who has to 'invite' teams rather than when 'accepting' the invites.

It occurred to me just now that I sent out 12 or so invites last night and, it is possible, that one of those managers sees the invite and perhaps not recognising my name or my team, or just forgetting, 'rejects' the invitation. Furthermore, if this were to happen (accidentally or deliberately) then unless we double-check every game, we could miss it, so...

My suggestion is that after you have each invited all the teams you need to invite as per the instructions (Eg. I have to invite 12 teams as a 'volunteer'), you should later confirm that each and every one of those invitations you sent out were actually 'accepted' and didn't somehow get missed/rejected etc. If not, it could be a game that gets missed which would alter a complete round and all the final standings.

I guess the better suggestion is that just before the season begins, go through and make sure you can see all 15 games in your schedule at the right times and against the right teams.

Last edited by MrJ at 3/24/2025 5:48:06 AM

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