Huw. Thanks for looking at it. My work around was to enter a start
time of 100000 (10 AM) and then adding a '1' in front of everyones
elapsed time - which in the end produced the same result. By showing
a race start at 10 AM instead of midnight (or 000000) I managed to
avoid a whack of emails from club members who would have raised the
issue of an incorrect starting time. After I published the results, I
realised that all I needed to do was to not print the start and
finish time columns in the results, and just print elapsed time -
which they supplied - and no-one would have been any the wiser.
Thanks for validating my concern and taking it forward.
Bill.
ps - now - about the Rinderle calculations....
Bill,
I can confirm that there is a problem with the calculation of
corrected
times when using elapsed times in the PHRFTOT handicap method.
However, the work around is to enter as a start and finish time. I
entered a
start time of 000000 and then entered the elapsed time as the
finish time
and get what I believe is a correct set of results.
I will raise the issue with Colin the Sailwave author.
Kind regards,
Huw
From: sailwave@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sailwave@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf
Of bvisser959
Sent: 19 July 2008 19:04
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] Re: Error calculating using elapsed times
only in
PHRFTOT
Well silly me. Trapped by my own fingers.
Weekend 2008 - broken.blw. Just uploaded. (and verified that it
loaded)
The other files you refer to are for the Rinderle calculations
issue
(another thread) I have also submitted.
Thanks, Bill.
>
> Can you please let me know exactly which race in which file
(summer
or
> Spring) you are referring to? It will help me to focus in on the
problem
> 
>
> I have noticed in the Spring file that some races have start
times
when they
> are labelled as Elapsed Times. Haven't looked at the Summer file
yet.
>
> Kind regards,
> Huw
> From: sailwave@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sailwave@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf
> Of bvisser959
> Sent: 19 July 2008 16:51
> To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [sailwave] Re: Error calculating using elapsed times
only in
> PHRFTOT
>
>
> Hello all - I uploaded a .blw file that generates the error to
the
> group (once I realised I did it wrong in the first place.) Has
anyone
> had a chance to look at the file to see what I am experiencing,
and
> perhaps could guide me on how to correct this (unless it is a
bug, in
> which case I'll wait for the fix ..)
> >
> > In a recent race, the results were provided to me in elapsed
time
> only.
> > Since we use PHRFTOT, this was not a problem. However, when
the
> > calculations were made, approximately 10 hours were added to
the
> > corrected times.
> > I eventually got correct results by running the results with a
> dummy
> > start time and using the elapsed times as to create a finish
time.
> > Needless to say, I took a lot of flak for this.
> >
> > Is this a known problem? If not, how do I submit a copy of the
race
> > reports for analysis to see what I did? I am using 195 build
8.
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--- In sailwave@yahoogroups.com, "Huw Pearce" <huw.pearce@...> wrote:
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--- In sailwave@yahoogroups.com, "Huw Pearce" <huw.pearce@> wrote:
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> --- In sailwave@yahoogroups.com, "bvisser959" <bvisser1@> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Bill Visser. Collins Bay Yacht Club, Kingston, ON.
> >
>