Re: Fix Time Zone Challenge GC4N3QZ

I have a cache (GC4N3QZ) that wants users to find caches in at least 5 different time zones. I originally may have piggy backed on someone else's challenge checker, but I look in the list and now my GC shows up. Anyway, now the checker bombs and says no one is qualified and does not give any reasons. Can this be fixed or can I have a new challenge checker made for GC4N3QZ? Thank!

Yes, this checker has been broken for quite a while.

"allowedTimezones" is never specifed in any of its tags, so they are all broken. I will message sumbloke who can fix it (unless the mods can fix it?)

The if statement on line 612 IS:
if allowedTimezones ~= nil and allowedTimezones[tz] ~= nil then

It needs to be:
if (allowedTimezones == nil) or (allowedTimezones ~= nil and allowedTimezones[tz] ~= nil) then

I have updated the script. Please confirm it is working as expected now.

Works great! Tried it out on several cachers. Thanks for fixing it so quickly!

Sorry, I should have checked this one more extensively before telling you everything is OK. Checker does work for lots of cases, but fails with "caught exception" (and a rather lengthy but useless output) for at least the following cachers:

2bassetslaves
Hammerclub
Zuni Kid
tugies
Alamogul

I am guessing it is a particular non-USA time zone causing the problem, but I do not know which zone it is or it has to do with the number of returned time zones. Let me know if you can find the problem and fix it so it works for all cachers/time zones. Thanks!.

Brad (budabeli)