XWord Muggles Forum

Meg wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2019 2:32 pm Is that count down to the WSJ at the top of the page a new thing, or has it been there all along and I never noticed?

Will it go into minus numbers if the puzzle appears at 4:30?

I think it’s just adding more stress to my life! What day is it? Which puzzle am I going to do? Ack!

BrianMac wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2019 2:45 pm

Meg wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2019 2:32 pm Is that count down to the WSJ at the top of the page a new thing, or has it been there all along and I never noticed?

It is new and at this point, temporary. It's not quite ready for "prime time," but I need to have it up today because someone else is helping me with it and they need to be able to see it. One of the things we are trying to fix is to get it to say "1 Day" and "1 Hour" instead of "1 Days," "1 Hours."

Will it go into minus numbers if the puzzle appears at 4:30?

No, the idea is that at 4:00 will transition to a countdown to the contest deadline. I can only tie it to the time, not the actual release of the puzzle.

I think it’s just adding more stress to my life! What day is it? Which puzzle am I going to do? Ack!

Well now I'm giving away a little more than I intended, but another thing I am trying to figure out is if I can get the countdown to only appear in the proper sub-forum. So, the one you're seeing everywhere now would only appear in the WSJ forum. But another one for MGWCC would appear in that forum and same for PGWCC, MMMM, etc.

Unless you all hate it, in which case I will just dump it.

Hector wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2019 12:01 pmWorking fine here in SF

BrianMac wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2019 9:31 am Can some folks in time zones other than EST (U.S. east coast) take a look at the countdown and let me know if it's set to end at the right time? It's supposed to count down to midnight Sunday NYC time, but a member in Zambia (!) sent me a PM that it was counting down to midnight his local time, which obviously is a problem since that's not when the contest ends!

Thanks in advance!