[nhawk]

Originally Posted by cardz247

Maybe I missed this somewhere along in others questions but when creating a raffle and setting up the draw date why is it that if a raffle registers through say 6/5/2011 and the ability to enter the raffle ends at 12 am 6/4/2011 the araffle isn't actually scheduled through task manager to be drawn until the 6/6/2011? What I found was I had to go back and edit the draw date in raffle settings again and when I do a manual draw the draw date shows as being drawn on 6/4/2011? Kind of deceiving to those who entered the raffle in my opinion?

The raffle draws on the date the raffle is set to end.

If you set it to end on 6/5/2011, the ability to enter ends at midnight (00:00am) 6/5/2011 and it draws on 6/5/2011. If you left the draw time as the default, it would draw on 6/5/2011 at 10:00am per your server's time setting.

The only way a raffle wouldn't draw is if nobody comes to the site to trigger the vbulletin cron jobs. (highly unlikely, but possible)

Also because the vb cron jobs run via code in your pages, the actual draw can vary some. On one site, the job is scheduled for 10:00am, but due to low activity on the day it was to be drawn the actual draw didn't take place until 10:10am.