Can't sync session time
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gurumarkb
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Here’s a new one, JBidwatcher 2.1pre5- has been working great for me since it was released but yesterday I had an auction snipe set. This morning I look and the litle balloon message above the system tray icon said the snipe bid was too low and not accepted. Ok I thought, my max snipe bid was set at $95 and the bidding went higher then that as it always has done, that’s normal. I had created a tab that says “outbid” for auctions I have a snipe set but don’t win. I looked in that tab and last nights auction was there. I then see that the winning bid was $77.03 and I was a little upset that the snipe had failed to go through but since I set the time at 3 seconds before the auction end maybe there was a delay and the bid was late. I go to the auction and to my surprise it says I was the winning bidder (hurray for me). Happy ending yes, I manually moved the action from the “outbid” tab to the “won” tab, another no big deal, but the auction color is red instead of blue as Jbidwatcher thinks I was not the winner. It’s happened before where an auction was not acknowleged as won so I have a few red items listed in my “won” tab. Is there a way to change the color to blue to match all the other won items? Anyway, I finally notice that the Jbidwatcher time is way out of sync with the eBay time or my Windows XP time. Manually trying “syncronize time” doesn’t correct it. For example as I type this real time is 8:33 am and JBidwatcher shows 9:03am so it’s 1/2 hour off time. Here’s what the end of the error log shows: Wed Feb 24 04:16:58 VET 2010: Done getting the sign in cookie. Wed Feb 24 04:44:36 VET 2010: ebay: Error, can’t accurately set delta to server’s official time. Did eBay change something on their end again or is there something I need to change on my end to fix this problem? Nothing has changed in my Windows XP Pro SP3 for a long time. Thanks. |
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gurumarkb
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After reading a couple of other posts I checked my last auction and at least it submitted it at the correct time of 3 seconds before the auction end. eBay shows the bid being submitted at 2 seconds before the auction ended which is normal for my fast net connection. I think the problem has to do with the “time delta” as I’m in Florida on Eastern Standard Time and the last entry this morning in my error log says: Thu Feb 25 07:09:34 VET 2010: Time delta with ebay is -859 and yesterday the time delta was over 11500. I guess I will ignore this 1/2 hour discrepancy if JBidwatcher is still placing the bid at the correct time but it is a little disconcerting to see the wrong time in my JBidwatcher program. |
Morgan Schweers
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Greetings, I’ve got a fix for the problem of not recognizing auctions you’ve won; that’s a separate problem caused by a change by eBay on their Winning Bidders page. — Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX! |
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gurumarkb
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Thanks for the responce. I’ll see if I can find the fix you mentioned. I have no problem in editing the config file if that is what’s needed to fix the time. I’ve checked over the last few days and it’s exactly 1/2 hour fast from real time. At least it seams to only be a display problem and it is firing my snipes at the correct time so the internal bidding mechanism seams to be unaffected by this. Here’s the log on a successful memory snipe from Sunday: Sun Feb 28 02:01:46 VET 2010: Time delta with ebay is 1548 So you can see that the main bidding logic is unaffected by the 1/2 hour fast displayed time. Right now my next auction is over at 11:52 am (8:52 pst) and when I point at the JBidwatcher system try icon the message pop up says it’s ending at 12:22 pm. Again thank you for a great program. |