PLEASE address the issue of the internal clock being off by 3 hours ASAP! I'm bidding on a few HIGH dollar items this afternoon and I wish for the bids to NOT be placed 3 hours ahead of the auction end! Thanks for your help!
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How do you figure it's off by 3 hours? I see no evidence of any problem past 7:33pm last night and it was about an hour then, not 3.
Somethings not right.. I just replied to another person that had a snipe that thought there was a huge amount of days left, when it was actually ending in an hour..
And the auction I'm going for, the snipe thinks it ends an hour earlier then it really does.
And the auction I'm going for, the snipe thinks it ends an hour earlier then it really does.
How do I figure!!!? (That's the EXACT answer I would have expected from the admin here.)
It's STILL off by 3 hours! I'm even showing NEGATIVE seconds left for some of my snipes!
Have a closer look! Place a snipe and then check to see the amount of time left.
It's STILL off by 3 hours! I'm even showing NEGATIVE seconds left for some of my snipes!
Have a closer look! Place a snipe and then check to see the amount of time left.
Like I said earlier...."I'm not a noob so don't treat me like one." I've sniped HUNDREDS and I felt the need to finally post in the forums when things are wrong to give the admin and users alike a "heads-up".
I checked your account dont see the problem.
Perhaps it has something do with the timezone your in or such but certainly our clocks aren't off 3 hours. If they were and it had gone on for a 24 hours there would be 5,000 people posting in this forum yelling at us like crazy and going beserk.
So again more info is needed, at the very least item # that you're seeing this on. Because again I just checked your account and dont see that problem.
Perhaps it has something do with the timezone your in or such but certainly our clocks aren't off 3 hours. If they were and it had gone on for a 24 hours there would be 5,000 people posting in this forum yelling at us like crazy and going beserk.
So again more info is needed, at the very least item # that you're seeing this on. Because again I just checked your account and dont see that problem.
quote:743 to be exact. I still don't see the problem you're reporting though. Really this is probably best addressed in a support case especially since we'd need an item # and such. Although the odds of someone else reading this message board bidding on it's pretty darn low of course.
I've sniped HUNDREDS
I'll let you know if my next snipe does the same thing or not. I don't snipe that often so it might be a while...
However, auctionsniper.com said my auction 8148057926 ended an hour before it really did.
I was wondering if it's because I'm in AZ, and AZ doesn't do daylight savings... could that be a problem?
However, auctionsniper.com said my auction 8148057926 ended an hour before it really did.
I was wondering if it's because I'm in AZ, and AZ doesn't do daylight savings... could that be a problem?
I'm in AZ and my last snipe showed the time as being an hour off. AS sniped it for me without a problem. The clock was off, but the snipe went through OK.
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Originally posted by Sniper Sara B.:quote:743 to be exact. I still don't see the problem you're reporting though. Really this is probably best addressed in a support case especially since we'd need an item # and such. Although the odds of someone else reading this message board bidding on it's pretty darn low of course.
I've sniped HUNDREDS
SNAP!!! 743!!!? Thats awesome! When to I get my "King Mega Sniper" title? p)
The few that had gone off were still showing the remaining times in the negative second column...BUT the others seem to be time adjusted...What gives? LOL
Thanks for checking into it for me!
set your clock correclty on your own computer, including the date, and see if that helps.
We are morons and were using peoples computers times again. We cant trust you guys to do that. So we're making sure we exclusively get the time from our computers as we had been doing in the past. I'm not sure what the programmers were smoking but I'm going to put a stop to their illicit behaviors. They should know better than to trust people to have their clocks set correctly.
We are morons and were using peoples computers times again. We cant trust you guys to do that. So we're making sure we exclusively get the time from our computers as we had been doing in the past. I'm not sure what the programmers were smoking but I'm going to put a stop to their illicit behaviors. They should know better than to trust people to have their clocks set correctly.
My computer's clock is set at GMT-07.00 Arizona. It's showing the right time. I don't really care how much time AS shows until the EOA as long as the snipe goes through at the right time. 
The snipes are certainly going off at the right time, even if what you see on your computer says 352 days left.
I hope they fixed that today. They said they did or were going to. But with the holiday tomorrow it was chaos and people were leaving left and right. If not it might not be until Monday as that's when most people will be back.
I hope they fixed that today. They said they did or were going to. But with the holiday tomorrow it was chaos and people were leaving left and right. If not it might not be until Monday as that's when most people will be back.
Snooch, 743 sounds like a good number to me! 
So, here you go! I stopped cooking this AM to post this for you! You deserve it!
So, here you go! I stopped cooking this AM to post this for you! You deserve it!
Snooch,
That's not really a picture of a toad that M left you.
That's not really a picture of a toad that M left you.
Looks like it's fixed now.. just did another snipe that worked great.
My clock was fine on that day(and this one).. this is my work computer, and it's adjusted each morning so that it's correct (I work in a call center). However, I'm in AZ, and we don't have daylight savings time.. although my computer displays the time for AZ right, I was just wondering if the server was having problems with it...
Anywho.. it's appears fixed.. so thanks for looking into it Sarah!
My clock was fine on that day(and this one).. this is my work computer, and it's adjusted each morning so that it's correct (I work in a call center). However, I'm in AZ, and we don't have daylight savings time.. although my computer displays the time for AZ right, I was just wondering if the server was having problems with it...
Anywho.. it's appears fixed.. so thanks for looking into it Sarah!
The absolute most important thing to remember about that blasted little countdown thing on the mysnipes page is:
That time in no way reflects when your snipe will go off.
It is a nifty little javascript counter that makes nice eye-candy, but isn't an intergral part of the snipe process. It's just a web page countdown.
That time in no way reflects when your snipe will go off.
It is a nifty little javascript counter that makes nice eye-candy, but isn't an intergral part of the snipe process. It's just a web page countdown.
quote:and as such is misleading and complete waste of time!
Originally posted by Donovan J.:
It's just a web page countdown.
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