[Az-Geocaching] Date problems on AzGeocaching.com

[Brian Cluff]

A few of you have written me both on the list and privately about some 
caches showing up on the wrong date.
I've looked into the problem and found that it's very similar to last 
years, fixed, new years problem.

This time around, the problem has to do with both the way the dates are 
represented on geocaching.com and the fact that they are now static 
pages that are only updated whenever the cache is updated in some way, 
or in other words geocaching.com represents dates from the currentl year 
as month day, and dates that aren't in the current year as month day 
year.  That was just fine before, our program just had to assume that 
dates with just month day were in the current year, but now that a lot 
of the pages haven't been updated, the program is getting confused and 
stamping dates as 2003 that in fact happened last year.
I have been extremely busy lately due to everyone in the tech department 
but me either quiting, moving to a different position, or being hopitalized.

I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm not ignoring the matter, 
just that I have to take care the the stuff the pays the bills first.

If the dates really bother you, you can just edit a log entry on the 
page or the cache itself if you own it and just resave it without 
changing anything and the page should be updated with the dates that the 
program understands correctly.

Thanks for your patience,
Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek