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NJSS
 


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eBay - unbelievable prediction of the future !

I had a delivery from an eBay vendor this morning via Royal Mail.

I have just received this from eBay by email:-



Note - "dropped off 20th {today} at 17:48 BST" - more than 2 hours in the future Banging Head


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Just goes to prove Royal Mail delivery service is better than anyone else








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GREAT SCOT ! Rolling with laughter  
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Used to be the bane of my life ensuring that incoming tracking information was matched against the correct timezone for display at eBay Laughing  
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NJSS
 


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I don't think that it's a time zone issue.

The goods were bought through eBay UK, & shipped from an English address to an English address arriving within 2 days.

Who knows though ?

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Yeah NJSS but the servers are based in California...

eBay sends a list of tracking numbers to whichever carrier and as long as the TNs match parcels in the carrier's database, all/some tracking events are returned.

If the BST offset was forgotten (or calculated to end incorrectly) when a TN request was sent and then (perversely) applied on the status update, then you could get your 2 hours.

The idea is that all TN events are sent in/out with the correct Z(ulu) offset applied. Z is essentially GMT and is a constant. So UK would be Z+1 currently, France Z+2 and so on around the various timezones/daylight savings. You can see how getting it wrong would easily muck up reporting.  
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