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Old Mar 28, 2007 | 2:24 pm
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amislove
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Extremely minor bug with online check-in

You can push this one down to the bottom of the stack in terms of priority, but I thought I would report it anyway. When you go to checkin online, if you checkin *exactly in the minute* at the 24 hour mark, you get the (incorrect) error message

We are unable to complete the check-in process as a valid eTicket coupon cannot be found. Please contact a Continental Representative at 1-800-300-1547 for assistance.
For example, if your flight is at 12:35pm, and you start the checkin process between 12:35:00pm and 12:35:59pm the day before, you receive the error message above instead of the normal error

We are unable to complete the check-in process as the scheduled departure time of your flight is greater than 24 hours. Please try again later.
However, if you wait until 12:36:00pm, checkin can proceed as normal. I suspect that the discrepancy is due to a coding bug - the web script is probably using "less than or equal to 24 hours" while something in the background is using "less than 24 hours".

Anyway, feel free to ignore this one. The only impact is the slightly scary error message. As you can tell, I'm a bit obsessive about checking in first (I've snagged many an upgrade that way).
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