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NobbyCapeTown

Hi, with my membership I get 25 TT problems "per day". I normally play these around 9 AM. Recently I have been busy and started later. The site seems to remember my later starting time and counts the 24 hours from that time and will not open. How does the 24 hour time frame work and on what basis, local time, USA time, Greenwich ?

notmtwain

Have you heard of cookies? You just clear your cookies and I'll bet you can reset the timer.

NobbyCapeTown

Hi, there is a whole bunch of cookies. Which do I delete ? I don't want any other function to be effected, only the clock, which now only allows access to TT at precisely 10:00 AM local time.

chrka

I think chess.com runs on Pacific Standard Time (PST). Where I'm at, a new day begins at 9am (which should be 10am in South Africa, I think.)

This affects rating statistics and such as well.

NobbyCapeTown

That kinda makes sense.

Sred
notmtwain wrote:

Have you heard of cookies? You just clear your cookies and I'll bet you can reset the timer.

That's very optimistic. I bet you can't reset the timer this way. As a developer, why would I store these data in a cookie and not in the backend?

NobbyCapeTown

When I bought my 1st computer in 1995 with windows94 the guy said "how many gigs do you want ?" I said "what's the best you got ?"

6.5 gig.  I'll take it.  I was so proud to know what an Icon was.

Quite frankly, I hate cellphones and never use one if I can avoid it.  I also don't text people.  My old Nokia is always switched off but it does have a torch. I also never answer calls which are "Private Number Calling". If I would answer, I would know who they are and they are no longer "Private".  I respect their privacy.

In the same light, I don't know exactly what cookies are except that they store data somehow, whatever that means, and I have absolutely no idea what backend means, unless a lady is involved or maybe a rump steak.