In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 11:06:01 on Fri, 13 Apr
2012, Mizter T remarked:
The other thing to note is that the print out from a ticket office only
shows the day and month, *not* the year - so this journey didn't
necessarily happen in November 2011.

Maybe we can tell from the other entries whether it was Nov 2010,
they should be in chronological order. Also, what was the fare
charged, they tend to go up relentlessly year after year.

Journey history from a ticket machine shows the day of the week but not the
year. The day of the week made it clear which year my wife's 30 March
entries came from. So not hard to work out the year.

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Colin Rosenstiel

On 13/04/2012 14:06, wrote:
Journey history from a ticket machine shows the day of the week but not the
year. The day of the week made it clear which year my wife's 30 March
entries came from. So not hard to work out the year.

Well this one doesn't show day of the week. As far as I can reproduce
it, the first entry on the printout is:
13/11 11:59 Bus Boarding Route 507 £0.80

The fare is, I think, the one applying in 2011 as I have a National
Railcard discount loaded on to my Oyster Card.

Further on I have another one that puzzles me, this says
29/12 14:54 Rejected Entry (Code 21) Covent Garden £0.00

I wasn't in London then either, and have no idea how you get a "Rejected
Entry". Fortunately that didn't result in a charge. I'm coming to the
view that there must be some data corruption going on. I can't check
these old entries online, of course, as that only allows you to ask for
the last 8 weeks, and only one week at a time.

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Clive Page

In article , (Clive Page)
wrote:

On 13/04/2012 14:06, wrote:
Journey history from a ticket machine shows the day of the week but not
the year. The day of the week made it clear which year my wife's 30
March entries came from. So not hard to work out the year.

Well this one doesn't show day of the week. As far as I can
reproduce it, the first entry on the printout is:
13/11 11:59 Bus Boarding Route 507 £0.80

Are you referring to the printout or what shows on screen?

The fare is, I think, the one applying in 2011 as I have a National
Railcard discount loaded on to my Oyster Card.

There are no railcard discounts on /bus/ fares!

Further on I have another one that puzzles me, this says
29/12 14:54 Rejected Entry (Code 21) Covent Garden £0.00

I wasn't in London then either, and have no idea how you get a
"Rejected Entry". Fortunately that didn't result in a charge. I'm
coming to the view that there must be some data corruption going on.
I can't check these old entries online, of course, as that only
allows you to ask for the last 8 weeks, and only one week at a time.

If you use the custom selection feature you can get more than one week at a
time online.

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Colin Rosenstiel

In message , at 18:21:21 on Fri, 13 Apr
2012, Clive Page remarked:
I can't check these old entries online, of course, as that only allows
you to ask for the last 8 weeks, and only one week at a time.

You can ask for any range of dates (up to 8wks obviously)- there's a
drop down menu.

But it's quite fiddly (and almost impossible on a smartphone) and as
you've "discovered" quite well hidden.

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Roland Perry

On 13/04/2012 10:44, Paul Corfield wrote:
A question - did you hand over your card at the ticket office for them
to provide a printout? The print out should reflect what is on the
*card* and not what may or may not be in the central system.

Yes, I thought I'd made that clear, but do so now.

Do you ever use the 405 bus?

Sorry, my mistake the digits weren't very clear, it was the 507 bus.
Yes, I have used it once or twice maybe once in the last 12 months. But
I'm sure I wasn't in London on that date. And I never swipe my Oyster
card on a bus.

There is one other oddity in the printout on my card: a couple of tube
journeys that I took in December don't seem to be there, but the
November bus trip and a couple of top-ups that I made in December are
there. I wonder if there's some data corruption on the card, so the
whole printout is completely unreliable?

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Clive Page