If it's not the programmers fault that time on this site is displayed improperly, then whose fault is it? ;-)

Thad: After reading your question I tried to think of who else might somehow be responsible. Living in the US, depending on who you talk to, it seems like *everything* is either Obama's fault or Bush's fault.

happyjuggler0: Obama's fault. Funny! ;-)

In my case, though, I still think it's Fencer's fault because although he actually implements DST for the US pretty well, I live in Hawaii, which is one of the two states that doesn't observe DST and Fencer hasn't taken that into account in his programming.

Roberto Silva: Not if everyone followed Obama's leadership!

Seriously though, if the US eliminated DST because of a careful academic study, then everyone else would surely either eliminate it too, or at least conduct a similar experiment in their own country.

Anyway, all it would take is for the Czechs to also eliminate DST, and then thisbeme would need another scapegoat for why he times out.

Note to whom it may concern, if you find yourself timing out a lot, it is your own fault, not BK's. The occasional timeout may *perhaps* not be your fault, but habitual timeouts certainly are your own fault.

happyjuggler0: Wouldn't Americans then be one our off on this site for 6 months per year rather than 2 weeks?

happyjuggler0: Interesting, you'd think it'd be a wash.

Thad said: If it's not the programmers fault that time on this site is displayed improperly, then whose fault is it? ;-)>

It is Obama's fault.

Seriously.

A 3-year study showed that a 2006 time zone change in Indiana (US) saved energy (resulting in saved money and a cleaner environment than otherwise) by eliminating Daylight Savings Time:

http://www.physorg.com/news187946326.html?xid=rss-fullcontent


If Obama had followed the advice of the study, he would have eliminated Daylight Savings Time in the US, and the rest of the world would likely have followed suit.

[edit: and as a result, BK would not have to figure out which locality changes its clocks, and which ones never change their clocks]

Everything is Obama's fault, unless it is Bush's fault. or both of them.

People, please don't turn this into a political thread. I only point it out in the hopes that *someone important* somewhere might read this and help to eliminate Daylight Savings Time, which is bad for the environment.

Thad: Those who programmed the clock he's using?

Roberto Silva: If it's not the programmers fault that time on this site is displayed improperly, then whose fault is it? ;-)

ketchuplover: Well April just started, and most people don't log in every day (specially on a Sunday), so it's not really an estimation of site activity.

Thad: I don't think that's really Fencer's fault, the system clock just acts that way: since czech time is the default, it'll use the European DST settings and calculate every other time zone from there. So those living in regions with different DST settings will see a one hour lag for a while unless they "cheat" by selecting a different time zone.

This problem is common in most websites I know, and usually works in reverse: since most websites are American, they run on American DST settings and those of us in Europe will see a one hour difference in the clock.

Might not be a solution for people - but for myself, I've just set the time as the same as the server time (GMT +01:00...) .... just seemed to make things easier for me.

Aganju: I know this now, but the clock in the corner and timestamp of the message saying I ran out of time showed local time and date!!
Other than timing out how am I to know i will time out when the time says it is still weekend? It isn't like there was a clear advanced warning or the situation wouldn't have happened.
Why have a feature that is apparently implemented in such a way as to cause people to timeout while online and not be able to load the page intermittently.

It is fundamentally unfair to timeout down to an error with how the site if implemented.
Until other comments I thought the problem was at my end, but if the site is inaccessible because I chose a timing option offered by this site, then it is an issue with brainking.

thisbeme: the 'weekend' logic is applied according to server time, and does not care at all what your time zone or time zone setting is.
When Monday starts in Czech republik, weekend is over.
You just have to be more careful with walking on the edge. But I remember that this part of it was discussed before with you...

Roberto Silva:

Yes I mean April :)

Thad: Obviously it resolve with me in time to lose a chunk of games by timeout and losing the best part of an hour trying to get the page to load. Is this really down to having my local time selected?
If you are going to timeout at 11pm on your weekend and have intermittent periods where the site won't load because you select your own time then that function should go until it is fixed!

Thad: oh well.....perhaps when version 10 comes out we will see some improvements :)

ScarletRose: i use paypal as a guest, i just have to enter my creditcard number, and some personal information ... i dont have to log into my paypal account

Bernice: I have the same problem in Hawaii. Fencer doesn't seem to understand that Daylight Saving Time isn't implemented worldwide. Years ago he told me to just change the settings on my account and pretend that I live one time zone over. Of course, I'd have to change that twice/year. Not a big deal, but, come on, a site shouldn't work that way.

how come my REAL time is 17.10pm and the site is telling me that it is 18.10pm.....Brisbane does NOT have daylight saving......Ive tried changing it to no avail...

ScarletRose: What's the problem? The worst thing that could happen is that a year membership would be just stored on your profile page but you can never lose your lifetime subscription. The easiest way to purchase a membership for another player is to go to their profile page and click "purchase membership for this user" link at the page top.

thisbeme: I had trouble reaching brainking.com (and brainking.it) earlier today. It seems fine now.

thisbeme: if its working in prague...management doesnt care.

Fencer:  Am I still able to purchase a one year rook to credit to my husbands account? I hesitate just purchasing it since I don't want my lifetime membie downsized.. We have been struggling with ways to pay for the membership.. Dan has tried but, gets frustrated since his card won't allow paypal..  I haven't had to buy one in a long time so I am not familiar anymore with how to do so.. Thanks..

I had 30-60minute of brainking not being accessible. I tried both chrome and firefox. This website was the only site that was refusing to load.
I don't know what the issue is since this site apparently wasn't down and my internet was working!

ketchuplover: By "this month", do you mean April?

who logged on between 1-1-12 and 31-3-12 81 have been active this month.

happyjuggler0: Yes, it is possible. I coded it many years ago so I am not quite sure.

Fencer: Thanks for fixing it.

By the way, does someone have to be a Brain Rook in order to post a video to his profile?

Rod and I tried for a long time yesterday to post a video to my profile, but it didn't work. He could post it to *his* profile though, so the problem wasn't the video itself.

happyjuggler0: BrainKing is a very complex application and such things happen, occasionally. A simple restart usually helps.

happyjuggler0: Ok, the tournament just started that I was talking about.

BK went down for a minute or so for maintenance earlier today. Since then I have noticed a couple of anomalies.

First, I signed up for a tournament that was supposed to start "immediately" once the maximum number of players was reached. That was a while ago.

Second, games that a player has passed the deadline for moving are showing times like -2 hours 32 minutes.

This may be a new feature, I don't know, namely when a player is on a weekend day his time continues in the negative until his weekend is over. I actually like it, but I don't know if it is intentional or not, especially since that tournament hasn't started yet.

Vikings: I tried. Rod and I tried a lot of different things, we had a lot of PM conversations and tried a lot of things. He even emailed me the embed code he got when visiting the youtube video.

All no luck.

P.S. I even used 3 different browsers, changed cookie settings, and a couple of other things I don't recall at the moment.

happyjuggler0: just for giggles, try embedding it using rich text editor

happyjuggler0: You're quite welcome. Sorry it wasn't more productive help.

rod03801: rod03801: Thanks for the help trying. That goes over and above the call of duty.

Also thank you for the BrainBishop!

Still no luck, I see. Maybe it's only Rooks. I forget the benefits of each level. Or does someone know that knights/bishops can have videos in profiles?

happyjuggler0: You're a brain bishop now. Let's see.

happyjuggler0: I'm not positive. I tried your new code myself, and it still doesn't work. I wish I knew how to send you a message with some code that I KNOW works.. However, it "disappears" because the message tries to "use" the code, if that makes sense. I'm not html expert lol

rod03801: Perhaps you were right the first time, pawns aren't allowed to post videos....

happyjuggler0: I'm sending you a PM with the code that worked for me.

rod03801: I guess I give up then. Sigh.

Here is the "usual" youtube link for anyone who wants to watch after all the hype lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fqymcJRSbxI#!

happyjuggler0: Hmm.. I tried your code.. it left me with "/embed". So I thought you had an extra "/embed" in there. So, I took it out. Then I get a big empty space.

rod03801: Thanks for the help folks. I just tried the old embed code like you two suggested. Once my submission gets cleared, we'll see if it works.

rod03801: Yep, I' ve had that same problem when I've not used the "old" embedded code.

happyjuggler0: Actually, I just tried the code you used, and it didn't work on my profile either.
Go back to youtube, and be sure to check the box for "Use old embed code". That might work

happyjuggler0: I could be wrong, but perhaps brain pawns cannot do that.

I tried to post a video to my profile using the embed link to a youtube video, and after being held up for moderation/inspection, it came out wrong.

Suggestions?

Aganju: You can buy it first, then create tournaments and ask me to deduct prizes from your subscription. It is not automated yet.

Aganju: I'm guessing yes to that but you'd have to let Fencer know your intentions. He'll clarify when he reads this.

Artful Dodger: So - I would buy for example 10 rooks now, my membership would show 'valid till 2037' (with the top bonus)? And then I could take the prices from that 'storage' when I make a tourney? Or I could just be a member till 2037...