[Wikimedia-l] Office hours for VisualEditor

[Steve Zhang]

I have to say, I'm amazed such a long discussion has occured over a
question about the time for an office hours sessions.

*Steven Zhang*
*cro0016 at gmail.com*


On 31 October 2013 09:42, Tim Starling <tstarling at 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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