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Negative time

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#1 · Eli

10 Nov 2003

Hi,

Lately, some of my opponents that spend a lot of time to move, have negative time. I mean, when they spend all of their time for a game, the time is still going down: -1,

-2...

Why is that?

I hope I make myself understand.

Thanks

#2 · labradors

10 Nov 2003

Likewise. In my game 66322, my opponent's time ran out, and has gone negative instead of using a vacation day or forfeiting the game.

#3 · Dvd Avins

10 Nov 2003

Sometimes the program (programmers refer to it as a daemon) that starts new tournaments anddeals with time going to zero isn't running. Usually it gets restarted fairly quickly.

#4 · labradors

10 Nov 2003

If it's a daemon like that, one could easily use cron to call a script that would examine the output of ps to see if the daemon is running and, if not, restart it.