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Bug Cannot Reproduce Start of voting announcement not being made

What kind of issue?

Seems odd it would make all the other announcements but not this one regularly.
 
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Well contest creation and user submission are totally different.

I mean, contest creation announcement is made obviously when the contest is created.
The creation is made based on month day.

For the user submission, it's of course done when the user submit a media, so totally asynchronous.

However, for the start of voting phase, this is done based on album creation date.
Ie. it checks if the cron run date is between album creation date + number of days for media submission and album creation date + number of days for media submission + 1 day.

So I believed maybe it's there that an issue if the cron is not always run at the same time of the day.
Could you register for few days the time at which the MOTM cron runs ?
 
You go everyday to the cron page and look at the run time of the cron [XFA] Media of the month.

Clément
 
No the page before, just log for something like 7/10 days, the run time that is stated on the line for that cron.
 
I don't know what you are asking. Everyday at 7:01pm it is set to run. Everyday at 7:01pm it changes to the next day. So for today it will say January 15th 2017 7:01pm and after 7:01pm it will change to January 16th 2017 7:01pm.
 
Ah ok then it's fine.
The cron runs at the right time.

I don't understand why the announcement is not being made oO
Something must be wrong with the cron run but I don't know what.
 
Hello,

The only check would be to see if the cron was run in fact and no server log error.

Clément
 
This is crazy !!! Let's see next month then.

This looks like a never ending story :)
 
So it worked for a couple months. But now no announcement for the start of voting for March contest.
 
It's impossible to debug something that sporadic.

You are the only user having that issue so I would suspect something on the server.
I would recommend you start on the 2nd of each month instead of the 1st, that may avoid any further issue.
 
Why would the day the next contest starts be the issue? In this case the announcement should have been made on the 30th that voting started and the next contest two days later on the 1st. There's a whole day between the two events.

I don't get why the announcement for the start of voting isn't made at the same time the album is closed for new entries. Instead it's always a day later.
 
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Why would the day the next contest starts be the issue? In this case the announcement should have been made on the 30th that voting started and the next contest two days later on the 1st. There's a whole day between the two events.
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Yeah not sure anyways you are right.
Is the cron set to run at midnight ? A clue may be to set the date to an hour during the day.

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I don't get why the announcement for the start of voting isn't made at the same time the album is closed for new entries. Instead it's always a day later.
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Those are two different things. The album is not physically closed, it's a condition checked when loading the album based ond ate.
 
The cron was set to run at Midnight. Changed it to 6am. Too bad it will take a couple months to know if it made a difference. Thanks
 
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