First Lottery Results problem...

11:08.10 - Wednesday 3rd August 2005   (Link to This Entry)

I left the scripts running last night and I thought that everything was going OK, but it turns out that I didn't receive an 'update' email this morning at all. It seems the official National Lottery website wasn't updated with Tuesday's Daily Play results before midnight, and since my script only runs 8pm-midnight, it didn't see the change.

Obviously it would have caught the change at 8pm tonight but that would mean leaving the site unupdated for 20 hours, which isn't good. I've decided to remove the '8-12' bit and let the script check for updates every hour. I'll keep checking until Friday (when all of the draws will have changed) and if all goes well, the site will be updating itself on Saturday.