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Started by yuriy, March 24, 2026, 04:50

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yuriy

wondering if anyone else noticed this...  i'm the type to check my sales often throughout the day and sometimes i notice sales are ahead of time.  what i mean is for example right now i have two or three sales from about 5 minutes from now.  other times it's more like an hour or two from now. does adobe have some sort of predictive algorithm to be able to report sales a few minutes or hours before they happen? 

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yuriy

i have considered that.  i just find it hard to understand how a company would report times with accuracy down to the second from some unnamed time zone somewhere in the middle of the atlantic ocean.

DiscreetDuck

Is the earth flat or round?  ;D ;D ;D

SimonSays

As I can see they report UTC+2hrs, so depending the timezone you are in, it might be a future time or past time relative to your local time.

Uncle Pete

Quote from: yuriy on March 24, 2026, 22:13
i have considered that.  i just find it hard to understand how a company would report times with accuracy down to the second from some unnamed time zone somewhere in the middle of the atlantic ocean.

You never heard of UTC?  ;D It's used to be called Greenwich Mean Time. (Coordinated Universal Time) is based at the Prime Meridian, 0° longitude, in Greenwich, London, England. If you have a short wave radion, there are broadcasts on 2.5 MHz, 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 15 MHz, and 20 MHz

I'll suggest that you look at your time offset from maybe Adobe HQ time and see if that resolves the Adobe sales precognition question. Or tune in to one of the above and see what time it is, when you get one of those credits, from a time in the future.

Quote from: SimonSays on March 25, 2026, 19:21
As I can see they report UTC+2hrs, so depending the timezone you are in, it might be a future time or past time relative to your local time.

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yuriy

Quote from: SimonSays on March 25, 2026, 19:21
As I can see they report UTC+2hrs, so depending the timezone you are in, it might be a future time or past time relative to your local time.

just curious where you see the "UTC+2hrs" because mine just lists a time with no indication of time zone.

SimonSays

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Quote from: yuriy on March 27, 2026, 14:32
Quote from: SimonSays on March 25, 2026, 19:21
As I can see they report UTC+2hrs, so depending the timezone you are in, it might be a future time or past time relative to your local time.

just curious where you see the "UTC+2hrs" because mine just lists a time with no indication of time zone.
It's a derivation from what I see when a sale comes in. Adobe gives real-time info when a sale is made. If you check frequently enough, if you have frequent sales, you can derive it for yourself.