Subject: DST problem with tournament starts?

Date: Sun Nov 6 02:08:34 2022
User: Katya
Message:
Potluck ended normally at 1:55 AM CDT. However a new tournament never started after that at least as of this writing (it is now 1:08 AM CST).

Date: Sun Nov 6 02:27:29 2022
User: HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
Message:
With the adjusted time there should be a Potluck at the moment. But it has already been played. At the start of the new hour it should be back normally. I guess it will be "Super Quickie" next.

Date: Sun Nov 6 09:38:39 2022
User: MrFixit
Message:
Yeah I wish they'd get around to abolishing DST.

Date: Sun Nov 6 09:42:13 2022
User: JackK2016
Message:
So when is the server down? I don't know what 7:30 is by my time

Date: Sun Nov 2 02:58:40 2025
User: HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
Message:

So, another DST took place this morning. I was ready to my regular Sunday Potluck but it didn't start. So I thought this could be because of a DST change. One hour later Potluck started here.

Did you do anything related to DST, Denny?

Date: Sun Nov 2 03:16:58 2025
User: kenwa
Message:

On the USA side- I saw everything start as scheduled, 2am CST potluck start

Date: Sun Nov 2 13:49:21 2025
User: MrFixit
Message:

I am probably never going to try to address DST. Things get back on the rails right after. I'm not even sure what would be the "correct" behavior when there's actually an extra or a missing hour. And one thing us programmers are really good at is making stuff worse when we try to make it better.

MrFixit

Date: Sun Nov 2 13:58:21 2025
User: HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
Message:

It's not much problem when you take it ahead one hour. You need to wait for an hour until the next tournament starts.

But it becomes a problem when you take it back one hour. You start a tournament play one or two games or so then you find yourself playing a different tournament. That behaviour was reported so many times before.

Date: Sun Nov 2 14:00:06 2025
User: kenwa
Message:

yeah- that's why I lost the potluck to Hop- I was pondering all that :O)