Hi Sean, thank you for organizing the bug lists.
I'm writing about a date time bug that I've seen on many tables, in the latest version and many previous. I've testing this on the Android version only so far. I can only test for the bug on tables that support setting/showing the current date, so that means Pro tables only like Cactus Canyon and Attack from Mars. Some tables do not seem to store/show the current date time, like older EM tables and Dr Dude.
You can exit TPA, and manually change your tablet/phone's system time to any date (except dates in January!), and repeat the test, and see that the TPA date is one month early.
If you set the tablet/phone to a date in January, then in TPA, the Pro menu in the DMD will claim that the date time is not set, and it'll revert to the lowest date possible, something like "Jan 1 1969".
This bug impacts scorekeeping in games where the date of the high score is retained and displayed, like the date on which an AFM Rule The Universe was achieved. More worrying, this date error may have deeper implications in other routines that use the system date time for pseudorandom number generation seeding.
Thanks.
[argh, I realized I should have posted this in Android 1.15.0 thread. Mods, feel free to delete this thread, I'll repost this there.
Never mind, Mods, let this thread be.
]
Tom
I'm writing about a date time bug that I've seen on many tables, in the latest version and many previous. I've testing this on the Android version only so far. I can only test for the bug on tables that support setting/showing the current date, so that means Pro tables only like Cactus Canyon and Attack from Mars. Some tables do not seem to store/show the current date time, like older EM tables and Dr Dude.
- To see this bug, take note of today's date (ex: "July 19 2013").
- Launch a pro table, such as Attack from Mars.
- Click on Table Menu > Pro Menu. Enable Operator Mode: On.
- Click on Open Coin Door.
- Click on the "Enter" button to show the Main Menu.
- Click on the "Enter" button to show the Bookkeeping menu.
- In the Bookkeeping menu, click Down to get to B6. Time-Stamps. Click Enter.
- The DMD will show the current system time, which in this example is "June 19, 2013", which is a month early.
You can exit TPA, and manually change your tablet/phone's system time to any date (except dates in January!), and repeat the test, and see that the TPA date is one month early.
If you set the tablet/phone to a date in January, then in TPA, the Pro menu in the DMD will claim that the date time is not set, and it'll revert to the lowest date possible, something like "Jan 1 1969".
This bug impacts scorekeeping in games where the date of the high score is retained and displayed, like the date on which an AFM Rule The Universe was achieved. More worrying, this date error may have deeper implications in other routines that use the system date time for pseudorandom number generation seeding.
Thanks.
[argh, I realized I should have posted this in Android 1.15.0 thread. Mods, feel free to delete this thread, I'll repost this there.
Never mind, Mods, let this thread be.
]
Tom
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