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Bug (not working as intended) LF-Group tool

Dear development team, I searched the forum, but havnt found a report for this bug so far. It is probably easy to fix and at least for me personally it would improve the usability significantly. Situation : The LF Group tool offers the option to narrow the search towards play times. Great feature, effectively one of the most important ones for me personally, because it narrows down the available games only to the interesting groups. Complication : The algorithm doesnt work correct. From what I can backtrack, your system is obviously matching the given time limitations with the stated start times in the campaign. What is doesnt do however is to take into account that time-zone differences exist. As a result, when I am looking for a gaming group Monday evening 8pm European time +-3 hours, I am getting results of Monday early morning groups or even Sunday night, because some Asia-Pacific groups entered the value of Monday evening ~8:00 pm locally (in their campaign with their timezone). Since your algorith (I suppose) is simply checking the originally entered values without timezone recalculations, the result is a pretty mixed bag of results (both false negatives and missing hits). Solution (suggestion) : Use your recalculation algorith, which you are applying within the campaigns (because there the translation between timezones works well) and apply it for the search-criteria matching in the LFG tool. Thanks, much appriciating your work, Jenotus
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Can you give me an example of a search, with a screen shot?
Alright, attached a simple request : Dnd 3.5 games thursday evening. Got 3/6 replies for Wednesday, if you change the parameters a little bit you are even leaving the +-3 hours boarder on top of that. Screenshots attached: Simple request (just performed from CET European timezone) Marked the wrong answers in red (like i said, on top of the wrong day you can easily also get out of the specified +-3 hours as well). Hope that helps. Best regards, Jenotus
Thanks Tobias. I'm seeing similar results on my end. I've marked this down as a bug and we should hopefully resolve this soon. Sorry for the inconvenience meanwhile.
No problem, happy to help finding them. Great work guys, keep it on.