Temple ordinance expiration date question / possible bug
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Jeff_Luke said: 
Hello - I have a question about the ordinance expiration dates.
I have read that the expiration date is being pushed out 1 day for every day that the temples are closed for vicarious ordinances.
However, that does not seem to be the case based on the dates shown in the snippet above.
Temples closed on March 15 (I think).
I have one ordinance that was reserved on 13 May 2018. When the temples closed, I had about 60 days left to complete the ordinance. However, the ordinance expires 8 Sep 2020. Assuming the temples opened today, that is less than 60 days from now. I would have expected the ordinance to show expiring around Sep 26.
The next ordinance was reserved 13 June 2018. I only reserved the SP. The endowment was completed by someone else in 2004.
This ordinance had about 90 days remaining before expiration when the temples closed. 90 days from today would be around October 25, so I don't understand why the ordinance expires 11 September.
Hello - I have a question about the ordinance expiration dates.
I have read that the expiration date is being pushed out 1 day for every day that the temples are closed for vicarious ordinances.
However, that does not seem to be the case based on the dates shown in the snippet above.
Temples closed on March 15 (I think).
I have one ordinance that was reserved on 13 May 2018. When the temples closed, I had about 60 days left to complete the ordinance. However, the ordinance expires 8 Sep 2020. Assuming the temples opened today, that is less than 60 days from now. I would have expected the ordinance to show expiring around Sep 26.
The next ordinance was reserved 13 June 2018. I only reserved the SP. The endowment was completed by someone else in 2004.
This ordinance had about 90 days remaining before expiration when the temples closed. 90 days from today would be around October 25, so I don't understand why the ordinance expires 11 September.
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Christina Sachs Wagner said: I would un-reserve and re-reserve if I was concerned about ordinances expiring before I could complete them..0
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Tom Huber said: If other ordinances were completed, the expiration date is automatically extended by a year. Only if the expiration date falls inside what is hoped to be the extent of the temples being closed for the pandemic, will the expiration date be extended.
Keep in mind that the expiration dates (from what I have observed) are not extended on a daily basis, but periodically as needed.0 -
Jeff_Luke said: Thanks for the comments.
No ordinances were completed within the time window I reserved them. One is a SS so individual ordinances do not cause the 1 year tie extension, the other a SP where the last ordinance was completed in 2004. And I am only looking at what has happened since the temples were closed.
Sure I could re-reserve them, but my question is really why are the time extensions inconsistent with the amount of time remaining before the temples were closed.
I have 2 examples here where the extension time does not match the days that the temples have been closed AND the extension times are very different related to each other.
It is as if a different algorithm is being used to extend expiration dates on my 2 examples. If this is a bug it would be good to fix this before temples do open especially since the changes to the temple reservation page make it harder to use for many users.0 -
Gordon Collett said: I suspect the whole expiration date system right now is sort of "make do" because of the uncertainly of the situation. I don't think I'd worry much about these dates at this point and suspect there will be a database wide update of expiration dates once all temples are fully functioning again.0
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FamilySearch Moderator said: Gordon is absolutely correct. Once we have a knowledge of what date the temples are fully open we will extend 90-days from that date, or 2 years, whatever the case might be.0
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