russblau wrote:After having seen a number of URs complaining about malfunctioning restrictions on holidays, I did a test to see if our expectations about TBR expiration might be incorrect.

I set a restriction prohibiting all traffic on a PR segment near my home, with a start date of 09-12-2019 and an end date of 09-13-2019. Yesterday (09-12), the restriction worked as expected and I was routed on a short detour around the restricted segment. Today (09-13), however, the restriction is not working and I was routed over the same segment. The evident conclusion is that a restriction expires at the beginning of the last day of the date range, not at the end of that day.

I have not yet tested turn restrictions to verify that they work the same way, but will do so next week and update this thread.

I recall being told back in the 2015-2016 era when this functionality was first introduced that restrictions would continue through the end of the last date set, but thanks to the crappy search function of this forum I have been unable to find that discussion.

Is it in fact intended by Waze that restrictions are not effective on the last day of the date range? If so, many date-based restrictions all over the map are going to need to be reviewed and revised!

Twister-UK wrote:WME allows the start and end date to be equal when saving TBRs, so it's a reasonable assumption that restrictions ought to run from the beginning of the start date through to the end of the end date.

russblau wrote:After having seen a number of URs complaining about malfunctioning restrictions on holidays, I did a test to see if our expectations about TBR expiration might be incorrect.

I set a restriction prohibiting all traffic on a PR segment near my home, with a start date of 09-12-2019 and an end date of 09-13-2019. Yesterday (09-12), the restriction worked as expected and I was routed on a short detour around the restricted segment. Today (09-13), however, the restriction is not working and I was routed over the same segment. The evident conclusion is that a restriction expires at the beginning of the last day of the date range, not at the end of that day.

I have not yet tested turn restrictions to verify that they work the same way, but will do so next week and update this thread.

I recall being told back in the 2015-2016 era when this functionality was first introduced that restrictions would continue through the end of the last date set, but thanks to the crappy search function of this forum I have been unable to find that discussion.

Is it in fact intended by Waze that restrictions are not effective on the last day of the date range? If so, many date-based restrictions all over the map are going to need to be reviewed and revised!

Trexer0 wrote:Hate to bump such an old thread but seems there has been no recent updates from staff on this. Based on the number of URs when we had a TBTR expire a day earlier this is still an issue, which I've further confirmed in testing since.

russblau wrote: ↑Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:45 pm Reviving this old thread to report that, as of yesterday (25 April 2023) in NA at least, this behavior has changed -- a restriction with start date on 24 April and end date on 25 April was effective on both of those days. Apparently no one at Waze ever bothered to tell anyone that they had changed this.
 

russblau wrote:Update: tested with a turn restriction for a two-day period, and got the same result: the restriction was effective on the first day, but not the second.

I'm going to test some other combinations over the next few days (week?) and will provide further data.