Herlock Sholmes: Well, let's start with those listed in the BugTracker.

Pedro Martínez: ooops, I know what's my biggest "problem" ... I do not pay attention to all these details and features on this site ... this is why I better disappear from this board ...

I only care about vacation days when I am stuck playing the same player,,given new vacation days for no rason,,causing me to have 50 or more games and not being able to make a move on them for 6 to 8 months. I like vacation days,,We all have to get away for awhile,,,But if u give them to Anglestar,,then give them freely to all players then. Make it right or fix the mistake. It should be that simple. As far as bugs go, There will always be people who takes the rules of a game to a different level and change things that should not be changed. I will not go as far as cehating,but changing the rules of play for oneself while the rest of us play the way the site is made is unfair,vut its a part of gaming. Even in the old days playing with my sisters,they changed the rules while playing,,,now days,,they crack the code and play

Gammonator: How are you stuck playing angelstar?! She doesn't use automatic vacation!

Pedro Martínez: We should start to see his games timing out tomorrow. Currently Gammonator has some 20 games with the lady, all scheduled to time out within a week or so.

One game which is stretching things a bit is Behemoth Chess (angelstar vs. Gammonator) Started yesterday, angelstar to move. It says

start time 6. March 2010, 20:40:57

Time per move (?): 5 days 5 hours, standard vacation (16. March 2010, 01:40:57 is the last term before timeout for this move)

I've never quite understood how a 5-day game can have a timeout set 10 days ahead with only weekend days, and ok, an extra day to compensate potential timezones. Something is wrong there, but that has been around for a long time and will hopefully go away with the next version.

rabbitoid: It will go away.
Herlock said it well - "give then one finger, soon they will ask for the whole hand". According to too many improvement requests, the vacation system became so complicated that not even me understood it all times. Simplicity is what we want to achieve.

rabbitoid: 6 & 7 March are weekends. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 are non-weekends (5 days), 13, 14 are weekends - it ought to time out at 15 March 5.00. Seems that if a game starts on a weekend, the player on the move gets 48 free hours, regardless of the time it starts (which explains the move before March 16, 01:40:57, which is 5d5h + 2*48h after the start time). I'd call that a bug.

BTW, if there would be a setting "no-weeked, vacation days-only", I would have created my tournaments with that setting.

AbigailII: You posted earlier about the problem of removing a person from ALL your tourneys. contact MadMonkey, I'm sure he can whip up a script to help you do that automatically.

Is anyone else,s clock on this site running one hour faster than what it should be or is it me?

Mousetrap: not here :( sorry

Mousetrap: Your clock at home is 1 hour to slow

Mousetrap: Dont you guys have daylight saving, when do you set the clocks backwards or forwards... you heading into summer now??

IceQueen: spring forward,fall back,this saturday night

Summertime starts in Europe last weekend in March untill the last weekend in October

Gouwe gozer: It seems like we have summer time all year in Los Angeles! Warm weather. (But yes, we change our clocks this weekend).

IceQueen: Unlike the US, Europe hasn't changed its DST rules for quite some time (last time in 1996). DST starts 1AM UTC on the last Sunday of March, ending at 1AM UTC on the last Sunday of October. From 1996 to 2006, the US started DST one week later than Europe, ending in the same weekend. But several years of Bush policy had fuel prices rocketing, requiring a savings, hence an extension on both ends of DST in the US. In Europe, it's still winter - no DST here yet.

Gouwe gozer:
It is very strange I am still one hour fast on Brainking and our clocks do not go forward untill the last weekend in March as Abigail said. It is not stopping me playing my games though so I have no clue why it is like that.

has anyone noticed that 3 days games which should now be going to 4 day 23 hrs are now only going to 3 days 23 hr

beach: Here's a simple, logical explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_warp_%28science_fiction%29

beach: hmmm that is a worry

beach: It appears that I have 4 games that went to 4 days 23 hours and 1 that went to 2 days 23 hours. All 3 day games.

alanback: yes I have had that same problem, but have found it is no good complaining.

I would check to see what days your opponents have their weekend days set to, that would explain it

I think a certain Cardinal will be most distressed

I know this is not really about BrainKing, BUT it is to do with Fencer

Fencer, have you heard anything about one of our TV shows coming live from Prague tonight ?

Most Haunted is in Prague tonight going to all your haunted places apparently to try and contact the dead

Surely it will be on your TV as well as ours live.....

MadMonkey: Here you are Most Haunted LIVE

I hope your ghosts get the Most Haunted team Fencer, they have been disturbing the dead to long now. The G&G union (Ghosts and Ghouls) are planning a mass protest.

Ok.. I admit I do NOT like the program

(V): I bet they contact Fencer

MadMonkey: Well they won't be contacting the team... they'll have to rely on remotes n' the gravel in their pockets

(V): They just said they are going to use a Chess Board tonight, not a OUIJA board lol

MadMonkey: I'm going to have to be careful here... As the spirits have commentated on how the game should be played.

(V): I know you do not like it, BUT there is some scary stuff going on in that 'Old Town Hall' in Prague.

They are at different location in Prague for the next 4 nights...

The Most Haunted Live team will start their investigation of Prague at the historic and beautiful Old Town Hall. Sanctioned by King John of Luxembourg in the early 14th Century, the Old Town Hall, in Old Town Square became the epicentre of Prague and Bohemia.

It certainly looks a lovely and interesting place to visit....but don't think i will go out after dark there after watching this

I am watching the live web-cams on the site

MadMonkey: Surely it will be on your TV
I bet it won't. When the Amazing Race was in Prague, there was no word about it in Czech media either…

MadMonkey: Trouble is.. to me it's not scary. Worked in a hospital for a while and someone forgot to sign a room as holding a recent death not moved.

Plus.. having the and lived with a few ghosts being around makes it a bit....

(V): I guess scary is the wrong word, BUT there are some very weird and puzzling things happening......

MadMonkey: From a psychics point of view it's normal. Just 'signs'.. but the tradition of seances goes on.

There will be a Daylight Saving Time change tonight in Europe.
So if you think that some times are not correct here, this is the reason.

Fencer: Why don't we just set the clocks ahead 24 hours and save a whole freakin day? :)

Hi people! What kind of "rook" is this one? It seems like an angel, to me. But it's not right: everybody knows that I (ME, MYSELF) should be the angel... eheheheh

Gabriel Almeida: that sure is different LOL

Gabriel Almeida: A Rook who looks like an angel and has the wisdom of solomon - what more can you ask?

how can someone with NO days left, weekend set for sat, sun - time out on a game and get another 24 hours?

Bernice: If said person had one day of vacation left at midnight today, timed out on another game earlier today, by the time (s)he times out on another game today, (s)he has no days left (subtracted earlier today), but still gets the 24 hours extra (since you don't lose more than one day vacation each day).

AbigailII: this person had NO days left 2 days ago.

Bernice: when vacation days are set they are substracted from the total of vacation days at once .. even when the vacation day itself still has to come

for example : suppose i have 10 vacation days left and i use them all for the following 2 weeks .. then you would see a total of 0 vacation days left on my profile .. but i still wont timeout the following 2 weeks

if i remember right you can see wether someone has set some vacation days in the future already .. i am not sure weither it shows it when 'today' is set as an vacation day though

something else that could have happened is when someone changes his/her weekend days .. the old setting might have been used (because it was still valid then) while you see the new setting when you look at it later (and in the time between someone has changed the setting)

Hrqls: I think that I won't wait for BrainKing 3.0 to be completed and release a new (simpler) vacation system much sooner (in a week?). That would solve all problems like this once and forever.

Fencer: that would be great! :)

Fencer: thank god for that