When Late is Early

[rdwarr]

Just noticed this on the East Coast website. Apparently if a train due in before midnight is actually expected after midnight then it counts as really early. Bear in mind that there are 1440 minutes in a day:

Couldn't get the image to display but the 23:58 was coming in at 00:10 and was consequently 1428 minutes early.

Lazy programming.

 

[glbotu]

I'm surprised at that. I thought these sorts of things got "reset" at around 0400 (like travelcards/weekly passes etc). But yeah, that is pretty lazy programming, given that most "Get Time" type functions tend to come with "Get Date" type functions.

 

[Eagle]

There have been a few instances where NRE's website has interpreted a cancelled train as an arrival time of 00.00, such as this example.

 

[Darren R]

It's not unique to the East Coast website. The live departure/arrival boards on NRE do exactly the same thing. The same thing happens with a train booked to arrive just after midnight but expected a few minutes early just before midnight. Rather than showing 4 minutes early it says it's 1436 minutes early.

 

[Stats]

East Coast's website proclaims a train is "Delayed" when it is early.

For example, it is currently showing the 17:42 arrival from Welwyn Garden City at KGX as

Delayed
This service is running early by 2 minutes and is expected to arrive at 17:40