HELP import wizard has time out by an hour!

Never us AS for a must-have - it is fallible.

No idea what As does (if anything) when the clocks go back - maybe ask Support via the help tab.

R2

This year the time change doesn't occure till the morning of November 4th.

eBay times are always Pacific time.
Times at AuctionSniper can show your local time.

Any time difference between you and California?

Whew! I knew I didn’t feel more or less rested this morning. Had a heck of a time finding a clock that didn’t automatically change.

You can always change your time zone in AS to agree with ebay. Of course, you’ll have to do that math. BUT, the amount of time remaining in the auction should be, more or less, accurate, depending on the time on your computer. The actual snipes are synchronized with ebay's clock which is synchronized to the Big Atomic Clock.

Just a tad - im in the UK LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry for my assumption.

I have no clue about how you British run things.

Does the time remaining at eBay and AS match?

Just set your snipe and let AS worry about the time difference - remember the stoopid countdown on My Snipes is just a misleading piece of cr@p code written by a bored programmer that serves no purpose other than to worry people who think it is the actual countdown to their snipe being placed.

R2

Good Point Rick! Just checked and the time remaining is the same dispite the clocks being an hour wrong. Phew thats put my mind at rest.

Thanks everyone! I think im going to be ok
Michelle

Where does one find the 'time remaining' for the item on AS?

R2

"My Snipes" under "ends".

That's what I thought - why is she still looking there when I've explained that it is meaningless. For example, I just won something that showed 8 minutes to go on the My Snipes counter on my PC - if you 'update prices' it re-aligns itself but I say again "It's cr@p!". It quickly goes out of sync depending on the PC's processor speed and it misleads people (and Angels)!

R2

Agree, but there needs to be some countdown (expectation) and after all these years AS hasn’t shown any indication that it’s going to change, AND (and this is very important) what would R2 have to complain about? (Don’t answer that - remember, one crusade a day.)

What I’m really curious about – why spell crap with “@”? Do you also use eb@y or Engl@nd? Something to do with the English keybo@rd?

Hmm, it's so as to not affend you Yanks. Hence b@ll@cks, p|ss, cr@p etc.

When I worked in IT support I always aimed to minimise customer calls by either fixing things or publishing instructions to get around a problem. Seems AS doesn't have this attitude hence the same old problems arising time and time again. Still, keeps you away from Bingo I 'spose...

R2

Shouldn’t that be “B|ngo”?

Hi Guys (R2) you are so right about AS going out of sync - i ended up 'panic bidding' because AS was running 15 sec behind ebay and i was scared the auction would end before my bid was placed! Anyhoo afterwards i AS notified me that i'd won so it must have tried to bid but id already done it. The main thing is that I won what i needed and im now a happy Angel D

I rest my case - AS Support take note - the countdown on the My Snipes page is misleading!

R2

(in reference to case-resting)



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He he, just love R2 and Rick, are they a double act??

He’s the pea next to me in our pod.

He's the pain next to my neck!

R2