Guardian - Racing Australia 31/3

by **gazuty** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 5:13 am

Times in Guardian an hour out. Perhaps a daylight savings error?

by **Bet Angel** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 5:38 am

Only seems to affect a few races so it must be that the Betfair API is returning the wrong start times.

by **to75ne** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 5:40 am

yep, something is not right. for the last 5 races the ladder had no prices or any info displaying at all. on both modes 0 and 1.

i suspect its good old betunfair and their wonderful systems at fault.

it seems ok now, if you put clock forward not 2 bad, but don't trust it.

I wish i was not going through a bout of insomnia, most of the races are like trading dog races with about twice the normal volume (not a dig at the quality of aussie horse racing, just the lack of volume).

better than the telly i suppose.

by **Bet Angel** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 5:44 am

Just checked again and can see the later races are all an hour out, but that is what is being returning by the Betfair API. You will need to manually amend the times in Guardian.

by **Bet Angel** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 5:46 am

Last race at Ascot is four hours out on the API.

by **jmcole** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 6:43 am

Daylight savings ends tonight at 2.00 am in Vic, NSW and SA. For some reason Betfair have adjusted the time from 2:00 pm. Other states will probably change at 2:00 pm their local time. Perth is currently 3 hrs behind the eastern states.

by **to75ne** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 7:26 am

jmcole wrote:Daylight savings ends tonight at 2.00 am in Vic, NSW and SA. For some reason Betfair have adjusted the time from 2:00 pm. Other states will probably change at 2:00 pm their local time. Perth is currently 3 hrs behind the eastern states.

that explains a lot. so have they jumped the gun?

by **jmcole** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:07 am

Sorry if that was confusing, but its difficult to explain due to different time zones and some states not observing daylight savings.

In short, states with daylight saving should adjust the clock back 1 hour at 2.00 am tonight. Betfair have done this early at 2.00 pm this afternoon. Therefore, the countdown clock is generally (not always) showing as 1 hour remaining to the start of the race at the scheduled start time.

by **to75ne** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:12 am

cheers, that explains why some races are showing the "correct time", and others over 1 hour out.

by **Boing** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 9:20 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0exhVsIL ... re=related

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