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Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Problems with UltimateBet/Absolute Poker

Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker are not showing the HUD currently in Poker Copilot. That's because according to Poker Copilot they seem to be incorrectly logging the time of the hands.

I just played a hand on UltimateBet and this is the game time, according to the hand history file:
2010-03-17 07:37:33 (ET)

But when I asked Google the time in the USA's ET (Eastern Time) timezone, the result is:
2010-03-17 08:40:00 (GMT - 4:00)

A possibility is that daylight saving seems to have started, but UltimateBet/Absolute Poker are still using winter time.

This confuses Poker Copilot, because it looks for a hand played in the last ten minutes to make sure the info is timely.

I'll try forcing Poker Copilot to always assume UB/AP work on winter time.

1 comments:

Steve said...

Steve:

I'm on US-EST and we did indeed switch to DST on Sunday March 14th so we are indeed now GMT-0400. After having this problem over and over, my default behavior is to normalize to UTC, then denormalize as I use the date/time.

Steve (Moyer)

 

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