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Ziryab

This afternoon I had three hours left to play in a game that I had moved in this morning (or late last night), but it is three days per move.

Just now I had 23 hours remaining in a game, but two minutes later had 25 hours remaining.

What's going on?

TheGrobe

Did you go on vacation between the time when it was 3 hours and 23 hours?  There's a weird issue (that I feel is a bug, but I've seen rationalized as a trade-off between the 1 day minimum vacation time and game time) that adds 24 hours to your game clocks as soon as you go on vacation.  If you come off of vacation before the 24 hours you retain the extra time on your game clock.

Can't explain the jump from 23 to 25 though -- are you sure that you saw it right?

TheGrobe

Alternatively, perhaps you've become unstuck in time.  Say hello to the Tralfamadorians for me if you don't mind.

TheGrobe

Wait, they already know.  Nevermind.

Crazychessplaya

Ziryab: "Just now I had 23 hours remaining in a game, but two minutes later had 25 hours remaining."

If you have 23 hours remaing in a game just now, how can you possibly know that in two minutes from now you will have 25 hours remaining?

TheGrobe

I thought we'd already established that he'd become unstuck in time.

Ziryab
Crazychessplaya wrote:

Ziryab: "Just now I had 23 hours remaining in a game, but two minutes later had 25 hours remaining."

If you have 23 hours remaing in a game just now, how can you possibly know that in two minutes from now you will have 25 hours remaining?


Past tense. My list showed 23, then showed 25 a few minutes later. "Just now" is ambiguous enough in English to account for seconds, minutes, hours, even days: just now there have been tectonic plate shifts of sufficient distance to cause a tsunami that damaged a nuclear plant. In geologic time, the past months, years, and even decades are just now. In my use the phrase covered five minutes.