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UBT - Timbo wrote: Sun Jul 26, 2026 3:15 pmNO ONE makes available the END TIME of an F1 race - (as I only ever see the START TIME) - and the FB Sprint should finish (approximately) when the F1 race ENDS.

So, I have to work out the UTC time from the public information of the official START which is usually only given in the local time - and some times are in "Summer Time" or "Daylight Savings Time" when the clocks move backwards, compared to UTC !!

If I am wrong by an hour or two, then so be it...working out all 24 race start times in UTC is a PAIN !!!

oh, no... I didn't mean the time, only dates
I know that our sprints are starting a day before 1st Free Practice and are ending in the day of Grand Prix

but some sprints are scheduled to end a day after, like 27.09 for Azerbaijan or maybe its Formula1.com got messed up
sorry for that, in the morning there was more shifted dates or I was not fully awake and shifted months

Hi

I wouldn't worry too much about start and finish time -it's only for our reference, no one else is interested! So long as it starts on the right day and lasts about 4 days is all we're interested in!

Mike

Tamagoch wrote: Sun Jul 26, 2026 3:51 pm oh, no... I didn't mean the time, only dates
I know that our sprints are starting a day before 1st Free Practice and are ending in the day of Grand Prix

but some sprints are scheduled to end a day after, like 27.09 for Azerbaijan or maybe its Formula1.com got messed up
sorry for that, in the morning there was more shifted dates or I was not fully awake and shifted months

Hiya

No problem - and YES - you were correct that I had input the WRONG date for the Azerbaijan Sprint.

(But it is annoying when some websites list scheduled dates which are time-corrected based on the timezone the viewer is in... )

That has now been fixed so many thanks for highlighting this to me.

regards
Tim

ubt - mikee wrote: Sun Jul 26, 2026 4:38 pm Hi

I wouldn't worry too much about start and finish time -it's only for our reference, no one else is interested! So long as it starts on the right day and lasts about 4 days is all we're interested in!

Mike

Hiya Mike

Hope you are well?

I recall that one reason why the TIME of the Sprint matters is simply because many Teams and Members are based in lots of different world timeszones and so choosing the start/end TIMES to be the same on every Sprint could be seen as giving an advantage to specific teams in, say, Europe, if the start time was always 14:00 UTC.

So, linking the Sprint start/end time to the specific GP is a slightly fairer way to ensure that the Sprints are not seen to be favouring certain areas of the world !

regards
Tim

Hi all

The selected project admin confirmed that all is ready for the next Sprint:

26-08-20 @ 1600 UTC to 26-08-23 @ 1600 UTC

This is the first Sprint after the mid-season break, so hopefully everyone will be refreshed and ready to take part?

regards
Tim

The sprint stat update seem to stuck at 12:15 UTC

csbyseti wrote: Sun Aug 23, 2026 3:03 pm The sprint stat update seem to stuck at 12:15 UTC

Hi

Thanks for the message.

I was out today so I was not able to monitor the stats updates (as it is weekend and I had lots of other things to do !!)

However: even if there was a glitch for one (or more) updates, it was all sorted out by the end:

2026-08-20 16:00 UTC - 2026-08-23 16:00 UTC
NumberFields@home
Last update : 2026-08-23 16:00 UTC

regards
Tim

Hi Tim

Until 3 PM UTC, I was a Level 4 user with about 252,000 credits, which is fine.

Since 4 PM UTC, I've disappeared from the system.

Regards,

Fritz

Antares2022 wrote: Mon Aug 24, 2026 4:28 am Hi Tim

Until 3 PM UTC, I was a Level 4 user with about 252,000 credits, which is fine.

Since 4 PM UTC, I've disappeared from the system.

Regards,

Fritz

Hiya

You are still listed here:

https://www.formulaboinc.org/index.py?r ... 72b2f37c8d

and here:

https://www.formulaboinc.org/index.py?r ... nding=user

Maybe it is a "glitch in the matrix"?

regards
Tim

Please note I am away now until 1st September

Hi all

The selected project admin confirmed that all is ready for the next Sprint:

26-09-03 @ 1600 UTC to 26-09-06 @ 1600 UTC

Hope everyone is ready to get on board and start crunching for the chosen project?

regards
Tim