Items not appearing in real time

[fryed]

Can anybody help? When I go to a category the items come up not in real time. It shows the item as if I am viewing it an hour later, when in reality the item has not ended.

[woodland_gnome]

See bolded items below:

TIME DISPLAYS

Each page on ebay.com displays auction endtime time differently. (Display is different than the actual time that eBay keeps internally, which is in a machine code based on the number of seconds since a particular UTC time to a fraction of a second.) Thank all the people who complained about having to convert from Pacific Time to Whatever Time (and asserting it would be SOOO easy to do) for this mess:

On the Search Results, eBay attempts to display the time in your local timezone (which it apparently gets from your system settings, so that if you left your computer on the default Pacific Time when you bought it but set the time to your local time, the endtime will be in Pacific Time but the "time left" will be off, including showing listings that are still running as ended), in 12 hour format truncated to the lower hour or minute (depending on how long the auction has left to run) without an indication of what timezone it is.

On the My eBay pages (Bidding, Watch List) the endtime is in Pacific Time (and says PST or PDT as applicable) in 12 hour format truncated to the lower minute.

On the Listing Page for the item being auctioned the endtime attempts to be in your timezone (see the explanation for search results, but the "Time left" is calculated differently so it is relatively accurate) in 12 hour format truncated to the minute with no timezone display. This causes much confusion (sometimes anger) in people who expect it to end at the beginning of that minute, and then get outbid during the period between the beginning of the minute and the actual endtime.

On the Bid History Page all times are truncated to the second (but eBay keeps the time to a small fraction of a second to be able to break ties) in 24 hour format in Pacific Time (PST in Winter; PDT in Summer). However, for an active (as opposed to an ended) auction the scheduled endtime is not directly displayed: if there is an active bid it can be calculated by adding the "Duration" to the start time (next to the amount of the starting bid at the bottom of the active bid list; unfortunately that line doesn't show if there are no active bids).

On the Android App I have (a fairly old one) all times are attempted to be shown in the device's local timezone.

On other eBay country sites it differs. If you can't find the endtime to the second from the Bid History Page (because there are no active bids so the start time is not displayed) copy the item number and go to ebay.co.uk paste the item number into an item search box and the endtime is still (last I checked) shown to the second on the Listing Page in London time (GMT in Winter, BST in Summer).

To see and compare what times are displayed on the various pages, do a search and find an auction with at least 1 bid on it that looks like it will end mid-morning (to avoid having to convert 12 to 24 hour) in a few days. Note the endtime display there. Click on that listing and note the endtime display on the Listing Page. Put the listing on your Watch List then click on the # of bids to go to the Bid History Page and add the "Duration" to the starting time and note that. Then go to your My eBay: Watch List and note the time there. If the search result and Listing Page show the same hour as the Watch List and the Bid History (and you are not in Pacific Time) check your system settings (in Windows click the time display on the taskbar, click the "Change date and time settings" link and look on the timezone tab to see if you've got it set for Pacific, and change if you want the search results and Listing Page to show in your timezone, then reset the time to accurately show your local time (or better, use the internet time feature to synch to a time server) and save the changes.