On Oct 31, 2013 2:11 AM, "Steve Zhang" <cro0016(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have to say, I'm amazed such a long discussion has occured over a
question about the time for an office hours sessions.
I'm amazed nobody has brought up leap seconds yet, which make 23:59:59 roll
over to 23:59:60 and would steal not one but two whole seconds in Tims
example.
*Steven Zhang*
*cro0016(a)gmail.com*
On 31 October 2013 09:42, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 31/10/13 02:51, Newyorkbrad wrote:
> > In an arbitration committee election a couple of years ago, I
definitely
> > recall confusion about whether a deadline of
0000 on a given date
meant
> > that the deadline expired as of the
beginning of that date or the end
of
that date.
Voting periods in SecurePoll are actually half-open intervals [S, E),
i.e. "starting at exactly time S, proceeding up to but not including
time E". So "E = 2013-11-03 00:00:00" is actually the correct way to
express a voting interval that includes the whole of 2013-11-02 and
nothing after that. However, I have been browbeaten into using
23:59:59 in more recent elections, thus stealing a whole second of
potential voting time from our poor voters.
-- Tim Starling
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