End Time / Time Zone / Ended ?

Is that on your *My Snipes* page?

Is that after you clicked *Update prices*?

Lexie

Item #?

The time displayed on that page has nothing to do with when or if we snipe, it's there as an aid for you.

So you dont have to worry about us not sniping, we'll snipe.

[This message was edited by Sniper Sara B. on March 08, 2004 at 11:22 PM.]

I am seeing a similar problem. Now with 1 hour to go the time shows "ENDED". 20 minutes ago it was showing negative days, hours and minutes.
-eric

I have the same problem. It says item ended, but it still has 1 hour and 25 min to go. item #3279385813

It still seems to snipe at the correct time. My bid was low but I did receive the email saying so. Current Item: 3901156944, ends 7:15pm today but displays "ENDED".

AS seems to have added a new feature 'My Snipes --> Modify Account --> Display Timezone'. Perhaps this is the problem?

Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'

It could be, but with my auctions the time zone selected is PST and the auction also ends at PST. So unless AS is bugged because of the timezone thing, I don't see how it could affected it.

Is the time off by just hours, or minutes and seconds too? If hours, I'd bet it's the timezone change

Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'

Ok, I tried. I went to my own timezone (CET) and see what it would do. It still says the auction has ended. I guess I will have to stay up even longer and snipe by hand.. sigh. So the timezone thingie is not the solution.

That is really strange! I did a test snipe setup and it was fine! Are you U S based?

Make sure your clocks are set correctly on your computer, including the day,month, and year.

I've confirmed that setting your clock on your computer correctly fixes this.

We're going to try and make it so that countdown uses our timer so that it's always right.

It's impossible for us to ensure a customers clock will be right. It's easy to accidently set the clock to the wrong day,month, or year. So even though the time on the clock looks right the day/month/year/timezone, etc could still be wrong and screw up our countdown.

My clock is set to correct Hour/Day/Month/Year, central standard time and, w/o checking in Greenwhich, approximately the correct minutes/seconds. My auctions, however, are still coming up with unmatched-to-reality end times.

Is the "setting" supposed to be E-bay time (PST), for best results, or our own time zone?

Thanks,
A.

Yes, set your time zone to central on our site, I did that for you.

The word ended is still coming up incorrectly though I tested it here.

I'll send it to the programmers to investigate.

Please remain calm, snipes are placed properly as I've already said.

The time left that is being displayed on the My Snipes page has a bug in it. This is only a display error and has nothing to do with the actual time your snipe will be placed.

One of the web programmers is currently fixing the problem and it should be fixed in a few minutes.

Sorry about the confusion!!

-Kevin

Hi,

I am in the UK & having problems with the time, I just tried to add a snipe with two hours to go but A.S. says bidding has ended for this item, my PC clock is correct checked against GMT but all my snipe are out by 8 hours (ahead) so A.S. will be bidding 8hours to early, time zone in A.S. set for GMT.

Any help most welcome.

Cheers

Lee

Thanks for the info Kevin.

Lee, see Kevins reply just above yours, and WELCOME to the forum.

(I see from the times you were probably typing when Kevin posted)

Thanks all, it looks like Kevin was posting at the same time as me as I did not see his post when I started.

cheers

Lee.

My snipe ending in forty minutes says it already ended, though the time of aucton end appears accurately on the tab. The clock and calendar on my computer are correct, and the "ENDED" notation is happens from multiple locations.

I will take Sara's word for it that this will not impact the snipes.

WON THROUGH AS, as usual!

Hallooo, all,

I'm sensing from the messages above that 'a few minutes' have passed and the problem is now resolved. Except my times are still funky.

Or, rather, the times are correct but the countdown is wrong. The auctions appear to have the correct translation of Pacific to Central. They appear to be correct in relation to eachother (ends at 10:30, ends at noon, it seems there is a correct 1.5 hours between them).

But the countdown says they start ending, say, 10 hours from now. It's actually not even 5 hours? That sort of thing.

***Also, shouldn't this little update have ended up as an announcement in the first forum? Such that all updates about the fact that it doesn't work quite right could also be there? And there wouldn't be hundreds of different people posting the same question, in all different threads, over and over?

Remaining calm,
A.

I have an auction that says it ends 6 hours before it does. I tried cancelling it and then putting it back on, but it is still off. Does this have something to do with the time zones?

>Click Here< for a post from support.

There is a bug in a new feature for 'Time Till End' and are working on it.

Snipes are still being placed correctly.

... and WELCOME to the forum.

I looked at your post again, and realized you may be talking about 'end time' and not 'time till end'. If that is the case, then YES, it could be the new time zone feature. You can now display the auction end time in your local time. To set the time zone:

Click My Snipes
Click Modify Account
Go down to time zone in display options and set.
Click Update My Account Information (all the way at the bottom)

If you want to set to eBay time, use UTC -08:00
or you can enter your own timezone.

Chatter, I like your little guy!!

Dr. Shake, they are working on it , but the snipe will be placed, so don't worry.

Also, I'd like to you to our forum!

Whatever it was, it looks like it is okay now. The My Snipes frame shows the correct amount of remaining time. Thanks for fixing it if it was broken. Thanks for the tip if it was my error because I didn't hit the "Update Prices" link.