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Strange checker output in 46903
March 27, 2024 02:12PM
Hello!
I don't know where to post this, and not even, if there is a way to correct it, but...
As I used this checker: https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8D25W/46903
I got the following output (the green checker was expectet, the results were not), I've marked the strange parts in bold:

Saenger hat Project-GC verwendet, um zu prüfen, ob er/sie diese Challenge erfüllt und er/sie hat es geschafft.

2000 2020-09-28 GC40 Geocache
2001 2020-09-28 GC26C Medieval View
2002 2014-07-10 GC47FD easter egg
2003 2016-12-08 GCH47F Takahe (Canterbury)
2004 2013-05-19 GCKRNT 1.Brocken*Cam*
2005 2012-05-18 GCMREN alter Bahnhof Stöberhai
2006 2014-12-19 GCXKC9 Sønderborg Slot
2007 2012-05-19 GC15JT7 Oderteich - Ex-BGS Brücke(Sankt Andreasberg Event)
2008 2013-05-19 GC1GCWZ Der Brocken im Nationalpark Hochharz
2009 2013-05-18 GC1VJ0B Verflixt noch mal
2010 2012-05-27 GC29DYW Pausenplätzchen
2011 2011-06-11 GC2PZZ0 Südharz Eisenbahn #11 - Willkommen in Wieda
2012 2012-05-27 GC3HPWC Schlittenfahrt in der Trift
2013 2013-05-18 GC464ZG WuW#5
2014 2014-06-18 GC4V00V ~saer~s Schmuggelhafen
2015 2015-03-08 GC5MB25 Friedhof Huckelriede
2016 2016-03-02 GC6AAAQ Noch 28 Tage bis Ostern!
2017 2017-03-24 GC6YYEB " M & M " Revierrunde # 3
2018 2018-05-18 GC7KJCC Schulmuseum Bremen
2019 2019-03-08 GC84BNV Schönes Plätzchen
2020 2020-01-02 GC8ET32 002/366 gemütlich Beisammensein und der neue JGEK
2021 2020-11-27 GC8V7QW Katze entlaufen
2022 2022-01-06 GC9M1M8 Weserblick
2023 2021-01-20 GC929CV Schumachers Erbe_3
2024 2024-01-01 GCAH051 Der Bibliothekar

I've found 2 caches before they were published. I looked it up, and in fact they were published far earlier, the owner had just changed the date to some later date. Is there any way to see this for the checker, that the found date is older then the publish date?

Grüße vom Sänger ♫

Re: Strange checker output in 46903
March 28, 2024 02:12PM
My recommendation would be to inform Geocaching HQ about the specific caches that are causing the issues here. There was a bug that forced people to change dates for a while and my experience is that Geocaching HQ generally corrects the dates on the caches that had their dates edited during that time if they are made aware of them.

For the checker itself I would contact the tagger, which in this case is the same as the CO. The script could probably be edited to fix this but are we sure that the CO wants that?
Re: Strange checker output in 46903
March 28, 2024 02:16PM
I manually changed the lines to some fitting caches, as I have more than enough in each of that years.
I asked one of the owners about (whom I know personally from events here in Bremen), and he had no idea why he changed that date, he didn't do it deliberately.

As long as nobody does this with GC40, or other older stuff, it's just a minor bug.

Grüße vom Sänger ♫

Re: Strange checker output in 46903
March 28, 2024 02:19PM
As I said, there was a bug previously that forced the date change when editing an older cache, the caches should be reported to Geocaching HQ since they are the only one that can restore the date.
Re: Strange checker output in 46903
March 28, 2024 02:32PM
"Contact HC"?
How? Where?
Reviewers, who are at least connected to caching? Or somebody far away in Seattle, who according to the ever more constrictions on real owners while allowing commercial pseudocachers nearly every breach of rules, probably don't care about such geegaw?
And usually the owners can change the date themselves, I did several times (but in the other direction, because of the hiatus between reviewer request and publish date. I never tried it the other way around, is it not possible?

Grüße vom Sänger ♫

Re: Strange checker output in 46903
March 28, 2024 02:38PM
Reviewers are not Geocaching HQ, I'm talking about the actual Geocaching HQ. As I said my experience is that they will correct the date. No, the edit is not possible to make by the owner or by reviewers.

Your opinions regarding reviewers and Geocaching HQ seems irrelevant to the issue so I will not comment on that.
Re: Strange checker output in 46903
March 28, 2024 02:41PM
They are insofar relevant, as I don't intend to contact them, especially not for such a minor issue, too many grudge because of the bullying of real owners while kowtowing to commercial pseudocachers.
Reviewers are part of the community, HC obviously is not.
So I let it be this way.

Grüße vom Sänger ♫

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