Paddy Power Poker's hand history is corrupted. This is probably a Paddy Power specific problem, because I tried on Mansion yesterday and it's all right and I never experienced this before.
In the xml file there is a startdate tag for each game and one for each session.
It should look like this:
<startdate>2009-01-07 21:13:22</startdate>
But at Paddy it is missing the date:
<startdate>21:13:22</startdate>
Interestingly, this problem is only affects the HHs during the game. If I manually download HHs from My Poker/Cash Table History, it's all right.
But I don’t want to manually update the local hand history. That’s what we have a software for. It takes me 20 minutes daily to correct the hand histories and my database manually.
Further informations to enlight my problem:
I use Pokertracker to track my results and I live in Hungary what is in the GMT+1 timezone. Without a date in the hand history, Pokertracker uses the system date in my computer. Now, at midnight (server time is 11 PM) it assumes that it’s tomorrow 11 PM and completely messes up the database. It breaks the sessions, filters won’t work properly, etc.
But it’s not only a problem if you live outside the GMT timezone. If you want to rebuild the database from the xml files later, say, with a years’s data, all of the year’s data will be stored under today’s date, even if you live in Ireland or England. So you can’t filter the data by date any more.
I asked Paddy to forward my letter to iPoker developers or whoever customized iPoker’s client for Paddy (it’s a Paddy specific problem), but obviously they didn't understand my problem at first. So I try to put pressure on them and get more information by posting it here.
The "Flying Buttons" problem described in
THIS post is corrected in Paddy's client. That's why I think that Paddy modifies the iPoker client or that they are the beta testers for the iPoker client.
If this is a guerilla action from Paddy I'm really sorry for unveiling it. I really appreciate their efforts, unless it causes even more bugs.
What are your comments?
Do you experience similar problems on other skins? Or is your skin all right?