It hadn't updated on Thursday, and I checked again this morning...still not updated.
I contacted GSC yesterday and was told "It looks like the system is running a little slower than normal, it looks like it should be updating by Saturday." The rep helping me wanted to know if it's not updated by Saturday so the case can be escalated.
I'm curious if it updates tonight sometime. That's when it got fixed last week. Maybe there's a weekly update process for Meetinghouse Locator data? I imagine the data doesn't change that frequently, so weekly could be adequate. Thinking about it, perhaps it refreshes the entire database: all addresses on the planet, all ward boundaries, all ward meeting times, all contact info, etc. I'm just guessing at things. A weekly update might be overkill for some information. I'd think meeting time and contact info could be more frequently updated data. I don't know how often there are ward boundary changes in the church. At a previous employer, our data provider gave us USA address changes monthly. It was a good chunk of data, so I could see updating every address in the world taking a few hours. It's not something you'd want to update every day.
Oh well, I'll see what happens tonight.
How many days for updated meeting time to appear on meetinghouse locator?
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Re: How many days for updated meeting time to appear on meetinghouse locator?
The ward meeting time is correct now.
My theory is that the meetinghouse locator website is updated weekly on a Friday night batch job. A weekly update makes sense. It's a read-only website. This gives people in church departments a few days to update any boundary, organizational, and leadership changes that typically occur on Sundays so that the Friday night update is capturing current information for the weekend.
I see some outlier cases where such and update plan is less convenient. For example, there are some units in the world that don't meet on Sundays, so a Friday evening update process would mean any changes for them are less current. Changing the meeting time for a particular week, like I did, may not work for those units. I don't know what time the update process completes, but if you're visiting some place like Kiribati that's UTC+14, you'll want to check your meeting time on Sunday morning to make sure your meeting time didn't change while you were sleeping. But that same guidance might also apply to places in Asia, Australia/New Zealand, etc.
My theory is that the meetinghouse locator website is updated weekly on a Friday night batch job. A weekly update makes sense. It's a read-only website. This gives people in church departments a few days to update any boundary, organizational, and leadership changes that typically occur on Sundays so that the Friday night update is capturing current information for the weekend.
I see some outlier cases where such and update plan is less convenient. For example, there are some units in the world that don't meet on Sundays, so a Friday evening update process would mean any changes for them are less current. Changing the meeting time for a particular week, like I did, may not work for those units. I don't know what time the update process completes, but if you're visiting some place like Kiribati that's UTC+14, you'll want to check your meeting time on Sunday morning to make sure your meeting time didn't change while you were sleeping. But that same guidance might also apply to places in Asia, Australia/New Zealand, etc.
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Re: How many days for updated meeting time to appear on meetinghouse locator?
Apparently the new "Unit Websites" tool doesn't get refreshed meeting times the same way other things today. I changed our ward's meeting time last Sunday and have observed that on the meetinghouse locator that the time updated as expected. On the our Unit Website, it still has the old time.
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Re: How many days for updated meeting time to appear on meetinghouse locator?
This thread has some more details on the issues Unit Websites had and some of the current timing challenges.