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Incorrect Clock on Transfer

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46859.13 in reply to 46859.11
Date: 9/25/2008 12:57:52 PM
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From what I know, the time you see uses your PC clock, so desynchs can happen over time. My personal observations that the clock wanders quite a while if you use the 'Back' button a lot and never refresh.

Then again, you have 3 minutes to bid and noone is forcing you to bid in the last second, right? What do you think the speed would be if every single session synchronized with the server time every second?

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46859.14 in reply to 46859.11
Date: 9/25/2008 1:38:52 PM
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I've seen a lot of assertions here without evidence. I think we need a clear airing of confirmed facts.

Fact: The clock in the main table's title bar is not in synch with the user's clock, even initially. I just started a brand new clean IE session and the BB clock was initially 8 seconds behind my system time. (IE did not take 8 seconds to start up, BTW.)

Fact: The clock used for transfer times is not in synch with the displayed time. I just tested right now on www2, and a transfer scheduled to end at 2:35:28 ended at 2:34:55 (my system time), 2:34:47 (BB site displayed time).

AFAIK, my system time here at work is synchronized to a reliable network time server. There's no excuse for the BB servers to not be synchronized to a standard as well.

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46859.15 in reply to 46859.13
Date: 9/25/2008 3:44:01 PM
Medlanky
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I wanted to write here a lot of arguments, but user "oeuftete" did it already. :-)

So I add ideas I'm missing here - you wrote: "you have 3 minutes to bid ..."
But I don't reload page every 5 seconds (specialy when there is no reload button in page and reload force me to confirm "resend" ... really good solution:-/) ... and sometimes there are performance problems with servers and I reload page successfully several second before deadline -> this is hard to influence from my side.

Now, what I'm strongly missing is REPONSE of BB-mans! Hey, wake up! Can you please write at least one sentense that you registred the problem or that you are solving it or you will start to solve the problem in several days/weeks/...

I think that communitation with community is importat, we need (I belive ... not only me and my friend) some feedback, please. Otherwise people will happen angry a start to leave the game. :-(

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46859.16 in reply to 46859.15
Date: 9/25/2008 4:08:26 PM
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Now, what I'm strongly missing is REPONSE of BB-mans!


The GM team is more or less the spokespeople for the BB team.

If a BB sees this thread and can answer, great, but it's not something to automatically expect.

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46859.17 in reply to 46859.16
Date: 9/27/2008 8:27:22 AM
Medlanky
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Generally I agree, but in situatiation (specially whe we discuss about bugs) I would expect it. ;-) The reason is that next time users wil not motivated to report bugs.

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46859.18 in reply to 46859.17
Date: 9/27/2008 8:33:26 AM
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Generally I agree, but in situatiation (specially whe we discuss about bugs) I would expect it. ;-) The reason is that next time users wil not motivated to report bugs.


You're right, and that exact sentiment has been communicated directly to BBs in the past, and I think it's understood. Sometimes they just have to prioritize other things.

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46859.20 in reply to 46859.19
Date: 9/28/2008 6:47:39 AM
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Right, that all makes sense.

I hope when you say:

I am resynching those clocks now.


that you're properly configuring whatever time synchronization job runs on each platform, and not just synching them up for now.