Race times

[Reged]

Hi

I have been using BA for some time now (on XP, soz!) but when I recently installed it on another computer it was showing race times 8 hours behind the real time and I can't figure out why. I've checked the time in the BIOS, reinstalled the app to no avail. Any clues as to a possible fix? Thanks.

[Captain Sensible]

Have you checked your timezone on the actual Betfair site is correct?

[Reged]

Well, now you ask, I have logged into the Betfair site on that machine and, while the time appears to be correct there, the earliest race it is showing me in today's racecard is the 7.45 Kempton. Everything's fine on my other machine.

[Reged]

... although in the Horse Racing section, if I open the GB races, it does give me all remaining races at the correct times. Most strange.

[Captain Sensible]

Did you check the timezone on your betfair account? It's in the account settings under the address. Basically Gruss takes your PC's time settings for the program but the API is based on your timezone set on the betfair account. You need them to match for everything to show correctly. What timezone are you in?

[Reged]

Yup, Europe London is the setting

[Captain Sensible]

Have you tried changing the timezone on the PC and restarting the program ,(or open another instance of it) to see if they change in line

[Reged]

Okay, I'll have to look into that later as the machine is running with stuff at the mnoment. I'll report back later, maybe tomorrow, but thanks in any case for your assistance.

[Reged]

You are indeed an extremely sensible captain. I found Windows was set to Pacific time, which is logical if you think about the 8-hout gap. Now sorted. Many thanks to you/