On Oct 31, 2013 2:11 AM, "Steve Zhang" cro0016@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@gmail.com*
On 31 October 2013 09:42, Tim Starling tstarling@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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