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Hello,
I'm currently in the westcoast PST (-8) and everytime the time hits 9pm PST (12am ET) the auto-reloader stops working..
I've read through this thread and tried setting the timezone_difference_EST variable to both -5 and -8 but I still have the same problem. Has anyone from the westcoast figured this one out?
Thanks dave for a great script,
jm
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Cliff note answer: set the variable to "-4".
OK, I spend some of my spare time today trying to make this Auto Reloader script to work. I tried a little bit before and never got any of it to work for me. I finally got everything to work. First I had to make just the F1 manual reload work, then finally got the autoreloader working thanks to Caeddyn catch on finding that some users need to trim the extra space in front of the hypen before the user name ID.
Then at 9pm Pacific, the autoreloader stopped working! I did a little research/experimenting and I got the autoreloader to work again by setting thetimezone_difference_EST variable to "-4".
In fact, I think everyone needs this to be set to "-4" for now regardless of where they live. Because I think _dave_ now uses the UTC as a referrence time in relationship to Pokerstars time (i.e. New York, USA). However, I think (not sure) that on November 4, 2007 this value might need to be changed again to something else not "-4".
Please refer to this link:
UTC time offsets - Time Zones
Look at the current time for New York (regardless of where you live) and then look at the bottom of page where it says Current UTC (or GMT/ZULU) time. That how I came up with the "-4" when I checked it was like Wed OCT 31 at 07:34:41 for UTC and Wed 3:34 am for New York (pokerstars time). We need to subtract from UTC four hours to match Pokerstars time.
Anyway the "-4" works perfectly for me for now on West Coast. But I'm not sure if I'm right about it working for anyone in other areas or if it needs to be changed later on November 4th. Maybe _dave_ can give some answers. This variable thing is so confusing since originally it was an offset based on EST and now it uses UTC, not an offset from where we live, is that right?