Date Preference in the Preference Tab

[MellowYellow]

Hi, Ive been having trouble figuring out the Date preference in the Preferences tab when trying to filter days to get specific sessions.

I thought it was running based on EST but when I made adjustments to show me sessions with that in mind it didnt seem to work right.. I put it to show only for the specific day of 7-20 and then put my day starts at 7am thinking that that would be 4am PST but that doesnt work as it is showing only about 1/3 the hands and a MUCH different net winnings than what happened for the entire day starting at 4am PST. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[ptrack pat]

What site are you playing at?
Unless you are playing past midnight then it's usually not needed to use this "My day starts at" option.

[MellowYellow]

yes I am PST and I play well past midnight usually somewhere around 9pm - 3am something like that, and it seems like I put "My day starts at xtime" and it uses that as EST? Sometimes it seems like i got it firgured out right then other times the right hands dont show.

Sorry for the late reply been away for a few days.

[ptrack pat]

It depends on the site you are playing. I asked this but you didn't say.

[MellowYellow]

Oh sorry.. I play on Poker Stars.

[ptrack pat]

PokerStars hands are stored with EST times. Here is a snippet from the help file (it talks about Party but it's the same thing for Stars) that explains the use of this "My Day Starts At" functionality...

Party Poker hand histories display the game date in Eastern (US) time. If you are a user that lives in California, your time is Pacific (US) time, 3 hours less than Eastern time. So hand histories from Party that say the session started October 6, 2004 at 12:05 AM ET really was started on October 5, 2004 at 9:05 PM PT. If you leave the "My Day Starts At" field set to Midnight and then enter a date preference of October 5, 2004, you are not going to see this session because it really started on October 6, 2004 according to the hand histories. However, if you add 3 hours to this, setting the "My Day Starts At" value to "3 AM", then when you enter a date of October 5, 2004 in the date section, you are going to get data for any sessions that started between October 5, 2004 03:00 AM and October 6, 2004 02:59:59 AM. Therefore, the session started on Oct. 6, 2004 at 12:05 AM ET will be displayed with the data for October 5.

As a rule of thumb, if you want to use this feature, set the value to:

* If your time zone is behind Eastern US time, set the value to midnight plus number of hours behind you are. Pacific US time would be 3 hours behind Eastern US time so set the value to 3 AM. If you are 2 hours behind Eastern US time, set the value to 2 A.M.
* If your time zone is ahead of Eastern US time, set the value to midnight minus the hours ahead you are. If you are in Australia, for example, and you are 8 hours ahead of Eastern US time, set the value to 4 PM.

[MellowYellow]

Thanks for the help, i was doing it backwards...