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Originally Posted by OverhaulNetwork

I am wondering if it is possible to have the raffles remain active right up until the time of being drawn. So far I am experiencing that once it becomes the Draw Date that tickets are no longer purchasable and the raffle is removed from the active raffles sidebar and Raffles page.

I want to draw the raffle at 3PM and it would be ideal for tickets to be able to be purchased right up until I draw that raffle.

The entry period ends when it does to give an opportunity to check the entries for any invalid entries prior to the actual draw. It is hard coded and can't be changed.

It also prevents members from complaining that they didn't get an opportunity to enter a raffle because they didn't know when it ends. I've had that happen and the answer is always easy this way. The raffle entry period ends at 12:00 midnight the date of the draw.

Originally Posted by OverhaulNetwork

Another weird thing I am encountering is with the Scheduled Tasks Draw raffles

My board time zone is -7 so I am having to set hour to 18 to make a 3PM draw time. I am trying to make it 3:05PM so i can decide to manually draw if possible. However setting the first minute field from * to 5 has no effect. There are 6 minute fields and I am confused to what they do.

In your case for the draw to take place at 3:00pm, you would set the hour to 18 and the first minute field to 0. For 3:05pm it would be the hour to 18 and the first minute field to 5.

Now if the draw is not taking place precisely at 3:00pm, this is not a problem with the raffle task. vBulletin scheduled tasks run by visits to your site. If there are no visitors the scheduled tasks do not run and pile up waiting for the next visitor. So if say 6 tasks are waiting to run and the raffle draw is the 6th one, it could be a long time before the draw actually takes place. Because they take place one at a time with each visit to your site.

The only sites that run tasks at almost the exact scheduled time are very busy sites with lots of traffic.

If you're thinking the time on your server vs. the scheduled time is wrong, see this post for an in-depth answer... https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=196