Daylight savings start time havoc

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gutuami
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although everything is perfectly valid this type of message I get every new year. The trick is to specify other time then 00:00
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gazuty
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Every f*(*ing year.

It's happened again.
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Naffman
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Its good for manual traders because it keeps the bots out :lol:
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Euler
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Y, I noticed this too. How can this happen every time the clocks change! You would have thought it would be solved by now.
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Euler
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What are the time changes? Doesn't one state not enforce daylight saving time? I can raise with Betfair (again) but need to get my facts right.
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gazuty
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Euler wrote:What are the time changes? Doesn't one state not enforce daylight saving time? I can raise with Betfair (again) but need to get my facts right.
Tomorrow morning at 3:00 am clocks go back to 2:00 am in nsw, vic, sa, tas, act.

All Caulfield races from r6 out 1 hour on the api
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Naffman
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Every race seems to be delayed with me bar GCst. It seems Betfair are 12 hrs early as they changed it at 3pm.
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gazuty
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Naffman wrote:Every race seems to be delayed with me bar GCst. It seems Betfair are 12 hrs early as they changed it at 3pm.
Aaaaggghhhhhhhh. Can barely be stuffed to go back in and fix the others. Let me add up the PC paid and let me consider if I am getting a premium service for the premium charge. Hmmm.
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Naffman
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Haha, at least its better than outages ;)
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gazuty
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Naffman wrote:Its good for manual traders because it keeps the bots out :lol:
Since I've reset I've been cleaning up. Looks like not too many other bots have fired back up. Phew.
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Naffman
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gazuty wrote:Since I've reset I've been cleaning up. Looks like not too many other bots have fired back up. Phew.
I had my best day today due to that as there were just so many gaps in the market but still a huge amount of money getting matched.
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Galilee66
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If I were a Betfair shareholder I would be very concerned that the people responsible for ensuring the well being of my investment so spectacularly fail - twice a year - to even get the time correct!!!

I had a good day yesterday as well - wouldn't it be great if the bots were removed from the equation.

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gazuty
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Galilee66 wrote: wouldn't it be great if the bots were removed from the equation.
Ah. No that would be a disaster.
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Galilee66
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OK Gazuty, You can keep your bots - as long as they aren't the ones that put $47 in front of me every time I place a $200 lay - followed by $14 and $9 leapfrogging each other!!

BTW - the API and BF seem to have settled down fairly well now - except for the daylight saving debacle by BF.


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gazuty
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Tomorrow Sunday in Australia, we have (some states) kicking into Daylight Savings.

Expect times in the api and hence guardian to be wrong. Exercise caution, (mainly an issue for an automated trader like me because a manual trader will spot it).
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