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8none1 / octopus_powerups

Programmatic access to Power Up time data
http://www.whizzy.org/octopus_powerups/
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JSON/email mismatch #8

Open catch56 opened 2 hours ago

catch56 commented 2 hours ago

This may not be a bug, but opening in case:

I got an e-mail for a power-up today (10th October 2024) for 11:30am to 1:30pm.

However the JSON shows this as 10am to 12pm:

[{"start":"2024-10-10T10:00:00.000Z","end":"2024-10-10T12:00:00.000Z"}]

There are probably two possiibilities:

  1. The email parser picked up the wrong date.

  2. We live in different parts of the operator and get different powerup times.

I'm assuming it's #2, and that this means I should look into self-hosting the email parsing logic from my own emails, but opening an issue just to double check.

8none1 commented 2 hours ago

Note that the times in the JSON file are in UTC, hence the Z at the end. So that's (currently) 11am BST -> 1pm BST.

Even factoring the time zone correction, it's still out by 30 mins.

It does indeed look like option 2 since my power up times were correct. I have a friend in Suffolk and he didn't even get a Power Up today, so it looks like they are getting more localised as time goes on.

You have the option of self hosting and you can find some (sort of) instructions here: https://github.com/8none1/octopus_powerups/issues/1#issuecomment-2308447124 If you need a hand, let me know and I'll see if I can help.

Another alternative is that I set up another instance at my end and you forward your Power Up emails to me and I can have the script output to a new JSON file.

gcoan commented 1 hour ago

Interesting the events are getting more localised I think.

My own power up today is 11:00-13:00 BST, same times as yours @8none1 but the power up I had a couple of days, a friend of mine who lives North of Cambridge, he didn't have one at all.

8none1 commented 1 hour ago

North of Cambridge

Wow, that really is getting very localised. I wondered if it's something to do with being close to Little Barford, but that's probably a close to north Cambridge as it is to us.

I also wondered if it was simply the email notifications system being a bit hit-and-miss, but I don't think it's that either.